côtelette

See also: costelette

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin costalbor.

Old French coste

Middle French coste

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -lus

Latin -ellus

Old French -el

Middle French -el

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tosder.?

Latin -ittus

Old French -ete

Middle French -ette

Middle French -elette

Middle French costelette

French côtelette

From Middle French costelette (“little rib”), a diminutive of Old French coste (“rib, side”), from Latin costa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kot.lɛt/

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Noun

côtelette f (plural côtelettes)

1. cutlet; chop

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: котле́т (kotlét)
• → Crimean Tatar: kotlet
• → Czech: kotleta
• → Danish: kotelet
• → Dutch: kotelet
• → English: cutlet (see there for further descendants)
• → German: Kotelett (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: cotoletta
• → Macedonian: котлет (kotlet)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kotelett
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: kotelett
• → Persian: کتلت (kotlet)
• → Polish: kotlet (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: cotlet
• → Russian: котле́та (kotléta) (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kòtlēt / ко̀тле̄т
• → Swedish: kotlett
• → Ukrainian: котле́та (kotléta)
• → Vietnamese: cốt-lết

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From Middle French costelette (“little rib”), a diminutive of Old French coste (“rib, side”), from Latin costa.

Noun

côtelette f (plural côtelettes)

1. (Jersey) cutlet; chop