cabriolet

See also: Cabriolet

English

A cabriolet.

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

cabriolet (plural cabriolets)

1. An automobile with a retractable top.
2. (originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.
   • 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:

     Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.

   • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, page 72:

     "I think," said Isabella, startling Louisa, who had been watching the cabriolet down the street, "that Lady Penrhyn might have asked you to go with mamma."

Synonyms

• (automobile): convertible
• (carriage pulled by a horse): roadster

Derived terms

• cab

Translations

an automobile with a retractable top

• Bulgarian: кабрио n (kabrio)
• Czech: kabriolet (cs) m
• Danish: cabriolet (da) c
• Dutch: cabriolet (nl) m, cabrio (nl)
• Finnish: avoauto (fi)
• French: cabriolet (fr) m
• Georgian: კაბრიოლეტი (ḳabrioleṭi)
• German: Cabrio (de) n, Cabriolet (de) n, Kabriolett (de) n
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• Hungarian: kabrió (hu)
• Italian: decappottabile (it) f
• Macedonian: кабриоле́т m (kabriolét)
• Portuguese: conversível m
• Russian: кабриоле́т (ru) m (kabriolét)
• Spanish: convertible m, descapotable (es) m, cabriolé (es) m, cabriolet (es) m

a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse

• Bulgarian: кабриолет m (kabriolet)
• Czech: kabriolet (cs) m
• Dutch: cabriolet (nl) m, cabrio (nl)
• Finnish: hevoskärryt (fi)
• French: cabriolet (fr) m
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• German: Kalesche (de) f
• Macedonian: кабриоле́т m (kabriolét)
• Portuguese: cabriolé (pt) m
• Russian: кабриоле́т (ru) m (kabriolét)

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Translations to be checked

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} kabriolet c
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} cabriolet (sv) c, ^{(please verify)} cab (sv) c

Anagrams

• bacteriol., carbolite

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Dutch

Etymology

From French cabriolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaː.bri.oːˈlɛ(t)/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ca‧bri‧o‧let
• Rhymes: -ɛ, -ɛt

Noun

cabriolet m (plural cabrioletten or cabriolets, diminutive cabrioletje n)

1. cabriolet, convertible (car with a convertible top)
2. cabriolet (light carriage with a convertible top, drawn by one horse)

Derived terms

• cabrio

Descendants

• → Indonesian: kabriolèt

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French

Etymology

From Italian cabriola, cabriole (“horse caper”) +‎ -et, from Latin capreolus, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfr, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor. Doublet of Chevrolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ/

Noun

cabriolet m (plural cabriolets)

1. a cabriolet carriage
2. a convertible car
3. a knotted cord, each end tied to wood, to tie criminals to by the wrists
4. a Directoire style hat type

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: cabriolé
• → Czech: kabriolet
• → Danish: cabriolet
• → Dutch: cabriolet
• → English: cabriolet
• → German: Cabriolet
• → Galician: cabriolé
• → Italian: cabriolet, cabriolè
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kabriolet
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: kabriolet
• → Portuguese: cabriolé
• → Spanish: cabriolé
• → Swedish: cabriolet

See also

• coupé-cabriolet

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

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

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Italian

Alternative forms

• cabriolè

Etymology

Borrowing from French cabriolet, from Italian cabriola.

Noun

cabriolet f (invariable)

1. (automobiles) cabriolet

   Synonym: cabrio

Further reading

• cabriolet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Swedish

Etymology

From French cabriolet.

Noun

cabriolet c

1. cabriolet (vehicle)

Declension

Declension of cabriolet
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	cabriolet	cabrioleten	cabrioleter	cabrioleterna
Genitive	cabriolets	cabrioletens	cabrioleters	cabrioleternas

Synonyms

• cab

Further reading

• cabriolet in Svensk ordbok.