bateau
See also: bâteau
English
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Pronunciation
Noun
bateau (plural bateaux)
- A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.
Derived terms
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French batel: (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman bat, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English bāt (English boat) + suffix from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin -ellus. It displaced the native word nef, which comes from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin navis.
Pronunciation
Noun
bateau m (plural bateaux)
Further reading
- “bateau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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