cabriolet

See also: Cabriolet

English

A cabriolet.

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

cabriolet (plural cabriolets)

1. An automobile with a retractable top.

   Synonym: convertible

   • 2014, Porsche 356 Owners Workshop Manual 1957-1965:

     Bodywise, the car suffers from the demon rust badly, too. Look at the wings, the door bottoms, boot, and, on cabriolets especially, the inner doors and door pillar rears.

2. (historical, originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.

   Synonym: roadster

   • 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:

     Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 72:

     "I think," said Isabella, startling Louisa, who had been watching the cabriolet down the street, "that Lady Penrhyn might have asked you to go with mamma."

Derived terms

• cab

Translations

an automobile with a retractable top

• Bulgarian: кабрио n (kabrio)
• Catalan: cabriolé (ca) m
• Czech: kabriolet (cs) m
• Danish: cabriolet (da) c
• Dutch: cabriolet (nl) m, cabrio (nl)
• Finnish: avoauto (fi)
• French: cabriolet (fr) m
• Georgian: კაბრიოლეტი (ḳabrioleṭi)
• German: Cabrio (de) n, Cabriolet (de) n, Kabriolett (de) n
• Hungarian: kabrió (hu)
• Italian: decappottabile (it) f
• Japanese: カブリオレ (ja) (kaburiore)
• Korean: 카브리올레 (kabeuriolle)
• Macedonian: кабриоле́т m (kabriolét)
• Portuguese: conversível (pt) m
• Russian: кабриоле́т (ru) m (kabriolét)
• Spanish: convertible (es) m, descapotable (es) m, cabriolé (es) m, cabriolet (es) m
• Ukrainian: кабріоле́т (uk) m (kabriolét)

a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse

• Bulgarian: кабриолет m (kabriolet)
• Czech: kabriolet (cs) m
• Dutch: cabriolet (nl) m, cabrio (nl)
• Finnish: hevoskärryt (fi)
• French: cabriolet (fr) m
• German: Kalesche (de) f
• Macedonian: кабриоле́т m (kabriolét)
• Portuguese: cabriolé (pt) m
• Russian: кабриоле́т (ru) m (kabriolét)

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Translations to be checked

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} kabriolet c
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} cabriolet (sv) c, ^{(please verify)} cab (sv) c

Anagrams

• bacteriol., carbolite

Dutch

Etymology

From French cabriolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaː.bri.oːˈlɛ(t)/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ca‧bri‧o‧let
• Rhymes: -ɛ, -ɛt

Noun

cabriolet m (plural cabrioletten or cabriolets, diminutive cabrioletje n)

1. cabriolet, convertible (car with a convertible top)
2. cabriolet (light carriage with a convertible top, drawn by one horse)

Derived terms

• cabrio

Descendants

• → Indonesian: kabriolèt

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cabriola, cabriole (“horse caper”) +‎ -et, from Latin capreolus, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfer, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor. Doublet of Chevrolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

cabriolet m (plural cabriolets)

1. a cabriolet carriage
2. a convertible car
3. a knotted cord, each end tied to wood, to tie criminals to by the wrists
4. a Directoire style hat type

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: cabriolé
• → Czech: kabriolet
• → Danish: cabriolet
• → Dutch: cabriolet
• → English: cabriolet
• → German: Cabriolet
• → Galician: cabriolé
• → Italian: cabriolet, cabriolè
• → Japanese: カブリオレ (kaburiore)
• → Korean: 카브리올레 (kabeuriolle)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kabriolet
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: kabriolet
• → Polish: kabriolet
• → Portuguese: cabriolé
• → Romanian: cabriolet
• → Russian: кабриоле́т (kabriolét)
• → Spanish: cabriolé
• → Swedish: cabriolet

See also

• coupé-cabriolet

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

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

Italian

Alternative forms

• cabriolè

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French cabriolet, from Italian cabriola.

Noun

cabriolet f (invariable)

1. (automotive) cabriolet

   Synonym: cabrio

Further reading

• cabriolet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

Noun

cabriolet n (plural cabriolete)

1. cabriolet

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cabriolet	cabrioletul		cabriolete	cabrioletele
genitive-dative	cabriolet	cabrioletului		cabriolete	cabrioletelor
vocative	cabrioletule			cabrioletelor

References

• cabriolet in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

Noun

cabriolet c

1. cabriolet (vehicle)

Declension

Declension of cabriolet

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	cabriolet	cabriolets
	definite	cabrioleten	cabrioletens
plural	indefinite	cabrioleter	cabrioleters
	definite	cabrioleterna	cabrioleternas

Synonyms

• cab

References

• cabriolet in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• cabriolet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)