braille
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852). The /eɪl/ seems to reflect a spelling-pronunciation; French has /aj/ instead.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈbɹeɪl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪl
- IPA(key): /ˈbɹaɪ/ (approximating French pronunciation; uncommon)
- Rhymes: -aɪ
Noun
[edit]braille (countable and uncountable, plural brailles)
- A system of writing in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.
Usage notes
[edit]The Braille Authority of North America recommends using lower-case braille for the script, and reserving capital Braille for the man. However, the script is commonly capitalized as well. In British English, the capitalised form Braille should always be used.
Derived terms
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Verb
[edit]braille (third-person singular simple present brailles, present participle brailling, simple past and past participle brailled)
- To write in, or convert into, the braille writing system.
- I played back my recorded notes and brailled them.
- 1967, Carlton Fredericks, Federal Trade Commission Decisions, volume 71, page 237:
- the sponsorship statement on respondent's brailled volumes [...] He admittedly had no knowledge of just how respondent's book [...] came to be brailled
- (informal, by extension) to identify something by touch.
Translations
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Adjective
[edit]braille (not comparable)
- Of, relating to or written in braille.
Further reading
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[edit]Dutch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Braille (unofficial)
Etymology
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[edit]braille n (uncountable)
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852).
Noun
[edit]braille m (plural brailles)
- braille
- 2004, “Catalogue”, in Bâtards Sensibles, performed by TTC:
- Tu nous sens venir / Ou tu veux qu’on te parle en braille ?
- Do you feel us coming / Or do you want us to speak to you in braille?
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]braille
- inflection of brailler:
Further reading
[edit]- “braille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English braille.
Noun
[edit]braille m (genitive singular braille)
- braille
- Synonym: scríbhneoireacht bhraille
Declension
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
[edit]- cló bhraille m (“braille type”)
Mutation
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
braille | bhraille | mbraille |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “braille”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “braille”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “braille”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- “braille”, in The National Terminology Database for Irish, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU and Foras na Gaeilge, 2006–2024
Middle English
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[edit]braille
- Alternative form of brayle
Portuguese
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Noun
[edit]braille m (plural brailles)
- braille (system of writing using raised dots)
Spanish
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- Syllabification: brai‧lle
Noun
[edit]braille m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “braille”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “braille, en minúscula, con elle y en redonda”, in Fundéu (in Spanish), 2020 January 2, retrieved 26 January 2024
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