кювет

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cuvette. Further from Latin cūpa + -ittus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kʲʉˈvʲet]

Noun

кюве́т • (kjuvét) m inan (genitive кюве́та, nominative plural кюве́ты, genitive plural кюве́тов)

1. ditch (along a road)
2. (military) cunette, cuvette
3. (dated) moat

Declension

Declension of кюве́т (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	кюве́т kjuvét	кюве́ты kjuvéty
genitive	кюве́та kjuvéta	кюве́тов kjuvétov
dative	кюве́ту kjuvétu	кюве́там kjuvétam
accusative	кюве́т kjuvét	кюве́ты kjuvéty
instrumental	кюве́том kjuvétom	кюве́тами kjuvétami
prepositional	кюве́те kjuvéte	кюве́тах kjuvétax

Related terms

Doublet via French cuvette:

• кюве́та f (kjuvéta)

Related via Latin cūpa:

• ку́пол m (kúpol)

Further reading

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “кювет”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.