paletot

See also: Paletot and paletôt

English

Etymology

From French paletot.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpalɪtəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpæləˌtoʊ/, /ˈpælˌtoʊ/

Noun

paletot (plural paletots)

1. (historical) A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 24, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     [W]hen his services were not required at the House, in his usual favourite costume, namely, his light green frock or paletot …

2. A women’s fitted jacket.
   • 1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature, page 93:

     For morning fetes is worn with this dress a small white muslin paletot, without sleeves, split up the back, trimmed with two gauffred frills, edged with Valenciennes, and a narrow puffing, lined with satin ribbon.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 833:

     Kit caught sight of Dally in the Principessa’s borrowed gown and a dark silk paletot, her incendiary hair done up in an ostrich-plume aigrette dyed indigo

Translations

A loose outer jacket, overcoat

• Afrikaans: jas (af)
• Albanian: pallto (sq)
• Catalan: abric (ca) m, gavany m, paltó m, sobretot (ca) m
• Danish: frakke n
• Dutch: jas (nl) m, overjas (nl) m
• Esperanto: palto
• Estonian: mantel (et), palitu
• Finnish: palttoo (fi)
• French: paletot (fr) m
• German: Mantel (de) m, Paletot (de) m, Überrock (de) m, Überzieher (de) m
• Greek: σακάκι (el) n (sakáki), μανδύας (el) m (mandýas), παλτό (el) n (paltó)
• Hungarian: kabát (hu), felöltő (hu)
• Ido: paltoto (io)
• Italian: paltò (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: palto (ku)

• Malagasy: palitao (mg)
• Malay: jas (ms)
• Norwegian: frakk (no) m
• Papiamentu: bachi, yas
• Polish: palto (pl) n
• Portuguese: casacão (pt) m, paletó (pt) m, sobretudo (pt) m
• Romanian: palton (ro) n
• Russian: пальто́ (ru) n (palʹtó)
• Scottish Gaelic: còta
• Spanish: gabán (es) m, paletó (es) m, sobretodo (es) m, abrigo (es) m
• Tagalog: amerikána (tl)
• Turkish: palto (tr)
• Venetan: paltò (vec) m
• Walloon: paltot (wa) m

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French paltoke, paletoc, from Middle English paltok; first element related to Latin pallium (“cloak”), second element of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal.to/

• Audio:

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Noun

paletot m (plural paletots)

1. paletot, jacket

Derived terms

• sauter sur le paletot
• secouer le paletot
• tomber sur le paletot

 

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: палто (palto), ⇒ балтон (balton)
• → Catalan: paltó
• → English: paletot
• → German: Paletot
• → Greek: παλτό (paltó)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پالطو (palto)

  > Turkish: palto (inherited)

• → Persian: پالتو (pâlto)
• → Polish: palto
• → Portuguese: paletó
• → Romanian: palton
• → Russian: пальто (palʹto) (see there for further descendants)
• → Spanish: paltó
• → Ukrainian: пальто (palʹto)

References

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Further reading

• “paletot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “paletot” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “paletot” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

Anagrams

• pelotât