carotte
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
French carotte. Doublet of carrot.
Noun[edit]
carotte (plural carottes)
- A cylindrical roll of tobacco
- a carotte of perique
- 1957, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Sublime Tobacco:
- He himself was obviously a non-smoker, and probably a total abstainer as well. I do not like to end this factual account of my smoking life with hard thoughts about a non-smoking official who deprived me of a carotte of tobacco.
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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek κᾰρωτόν (karōtón).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
carotte f (plural carottes)
- carrot (vegetable)
- carotte (cylindrical roll of tobacco)
- (by extension) the red sign outside a tabac or bar-tabac
- core sample (of sediment, ice, etc)
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Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “carotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
1393 garroite, 1538 carote, 1564 carotte. Borrowed from Latin carota[1].
Noun[edit]
carotte f (plural carottes)
- carrot (vegetable)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Etymology and history of “carotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- carotte on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (carotte, supplement)
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