pique-nique
See also: piquenique
French
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Etymology
pique + nique, from piquer (“to pick”, verb) + nique (“small thing”).
Noun
pique-nique m (plural pique-niques)
- picnic (a meal eaten outdoors)
Descendants
- → Catalan: pícnic
- → English: picnic
- → Galician: pícnic
- → German: Picknick
- → Portuguese: piquenique
- → Russian: пикник (piknik)
- → Sicilian: picchinicchi
- → Spanish: pícnic
- → Turkish: piknik
Further reading
- “pique-nique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.