étoile

See also: etoile and étoilé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French étoile. Doublet of estoile, stella, star, and aster.

Noun

étoile (plural étoiles)

1. (ballet) The leading ballet dancer in a company

Anagrams

• teleio-

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin stella.

Noun

étoile f (plural étoiles)

1. star

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French estoile, from Old French estoile, esteile, from Latin stēlla via the variant Vulgar Latin *stēla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. The expected French outcome for stēlla would be non-existent *ételle. Doublet of Estelle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.twal/

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• Homophone: étoiles

Noun

étoile f (plural étoiles)

1. star
2. (heraldry) mullet
3. (farming) a white mark on the forehead of a horse or bull
   • 1881, Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy, “étoile”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1], volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 814:

     صَبْحَة‎ (ṣabḥa) (M), صُبْحَة‎ (ṣubḥa) (Bc), étoile, marque blanche sur le front d’un cheval ou d’un taureau, pelote.

     … a white mark on the forehead of a horse or bull …

Derived terms

• à la belle étoile
• amas d’étoiles
• anis étoile
• avoir des étoiles dans les yeux
• avoir des étoiles plein les yeux
• bonne étoile
• étoilé
• étoile à neutrons
• étoile de David
• étoile de mer
• étoile du matin
• étoile du soir
• étoile filante
• étoile invitée
• étoile jaune
• étoilement
• étoiler
• super-amas d’étoiles

 

Related terms

• stellaire

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: zetwal
• Mauritian Creole: zetwal
• Seychellois Creole: zetwal
• → English: étoile, etoile
• → Italian: étoile

Further reading

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

Italian

Alternative forms

• etoile

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French étoile (“star”), from Middle French estoile, from Old French estoile, esteile, from Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, a diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr, derived from the root *h₂eHs- (“to burn, to glow”). Doublet of stella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈtwal/
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

étoile m or f by sense (invariable)

1. (ballet) étoile (leading dancer)

Further reading

• étoile in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• etoile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana