carreau
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French quarel, from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus from Classical Latin quadrus. Compare Italian quadrello, Spanish cuadrillo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carreau m (plural carreaux)
- square (as a geometrical shape)
- (card games) diamonds (card suit)
- tile (compare with carrelage, meaning tiles or tiling)
- windowpane
- bolt (crossbow projectile)
- (Haiti) a unit of land, 100 square pas (where a pas is 3.5 French feet or pieds): roughly 1.3 hectares or 3.2 acres
- (Louisiana) plot, patch (of land, of cloth)
- (in the plural, colloquial, dated) eyeglasses
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Bulgarian: каро́ (karó)
- → German: Karo n
- → Occitan: carrèu
- → Catalan: carreu
- → Polish: karo n
- → Romanian: carou
- → Turkish: karo
- → Vietnamese: ca-rô
See also
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cœur | carreau | pique | trèfle |
Further reading
[edit]- “carreau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French quarel, from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, from Classical Latin quadrus.
Noun
[edit]carreau m (plural carreaux)
Suits in Norman · couleurs (layout · text) | |||
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tchoeu | carreau | picl'ye | trêfl'ye |
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