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bateau

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English

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Bateaux

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French bateau.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bateau (plural bateaux)

  1. A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.

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French

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Etymology

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From Old French batel, Anglo-Norman bat, from Old English bāt (English boat) + suffix from Latin -ellus. It displaced the native word nef, which comes from Latin navis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bateau m (plural bateaux)

  1. (nautical) a vessel of any size, a ship or boat

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Descendants

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  • Burmese: ဘောက်တူ (bhauktu)
  • Haitian Creole: bato
  • Gun: bato

Adjective

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bateau (feminine bateau, masculine plural bateaux, feminine plural bateaux)

  1. banal, unoriginal, hackneyed
    • 2024, Alain Damasio, Vallée du silicium, Paris: Seuil, →ISBN, page 122:
      « San Francisco est la ville où le futur se conjugue au présent », lance-t-il régulièrement à ses clients. Un peu bateau ? Oui, surtout quand Arnaud donne l'impression de le conjuguer déjà au passé composé, ce mantra, tant ses pratiques s'avèrent en avance sur nos habitus.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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