arête
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French arête, from Latin arista. Doublet of arista.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
arête (plural arêtes)
- (geology) A very thin ridge of rock.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 88:
- In his old department in Zürich, they sit in glass cases: models to the life of the peaks he had studied, with the strata painted beautifully and accurately, passing over arête and valley alike.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 88:
Translations[edit]
a thin ridge of rock
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French areste, from Latin arista.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /a.ʁɛt/
Audio (Paris, France) (une arête) (file)
- (Eastern Quebec) IPA(key): [a.ˈʁɛtʰ]
- (Western Quebec) IPA(key): [a.ˈʁɛtʰ] or IPA(key): [a.ˈʁɛɪ̯tʰ]
- In Quebec French, "ê" is always pronounced [ɛɪ̯] when followed by a consonant, as in fête [fɛɪ̯tʰ], tête [tɛɪ̯tʰ] and pêche [pɛɪ̯ʃ], etc. But there are some exceptions, extrême and suprême are pronounced with the short [ɛ]. To the word "arête" and the word "arrête", all the Quebec Easterners pronounce these two words as the same way, [a.ˈʁɛtʰ]. In Western Quebec, the majority of people pronounce "arrête" as [a.ˈʁɛɪ̯tʰ], but "arête" as [a.ˈʁɛtʰ], although there is a circumflex, but they pronounce these two words differently, because they want to distinguish clearly the meaning, but otherwise, some speakers pronounce both as [aˈʁɛɪ̯tʰ].
Noun[edit]
arête f (plural arêtes)
- (zoology) bone (of a fish), fishbone
- edge (of an object); ridge, crest (of mountain)
- (architecture) groin (of vault)
- bridge of nose
- (botany) beard (of rye, barley etc.); awn
- (graph theory) edge
Further reading[edit]
- “arête” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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