contrôle

See also: controle, controlé, and contrôlé

French

Etymology

An haplology of Middle French contrerole, a borrowing from Medieval Latin contrārotulum (“a counter-roll or register used to verify accounts”), from Latin contrā (“against, opposite”) + Latin rotulus, rotula (“roll, a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁol/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ol

Noun

contrôle m (plural contrôles)

1. control (all senses)
2. verification, checking
3. (education) test

   Synonym: examen

Derived terms

• contrôle d’identité
• contrôle qualité
• contrôler
• contrôleur
• poste de contrôle
• tour de contrôle

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: control
• → Galician: control
• → Italian: controllo
• → Portuguese: controlo, controle; contrôlo
• → Romanian: control
• → Spanish: control
• → Turkish: kontrol

Verb

contrôle

1. inflection of contrôler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “contrôle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• colorent