patrouille

See also: Patrouille and patrouillé

Dutch

Etymology

From French patrouille, from Old French patrouille, patouille (“a night-watch”, literally “a tramping about”), from patrouiller, patouiller, patoiller (“to paddle or pudder in water, dabble with the feet, begrime, besmear”), from patte, pate (“paw, foot of an animal”), from Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), from Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *paþjaną, *paþōną (“to walk, tread, go, step, pace”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-, *(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *pent-, *pat- (“path; to go”); see find. Cognate with Low German pedden (“to step, tread”), German patschen (“to splash, smack, dabble, waddle”), German Patsche (“a swatter, beater, paw, puddle, mire”). Related to pad, patte.

Pronunciation

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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: pa‧trouil‧le

Noun

patrouille c (plural patrouilles)

1. patrol

Related terms

• patrouilleren

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Noun

patrouille f (plural patrouilles)

1. patrol

Descendants

• English: patrol
• Portuguese: patrulha
• Spanish: patrulla

Verb

patrouille

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) first-person singular present indicative of patrouiller
2. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) third-person singular present indicative of patrouiller
3. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) first-person singular present subjunctive of patrouiller
4. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) third-person singular present subjunctive of patrouiller
5. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) second-person singular imperative of patrouiller

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• polluerait