carotte

See also: carotté and cârotte

English

Alternative forms

• carot

Etymology

French carotte. Doublet of carrot.

Noun

carotte (plural carottes)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• cotreat

French

carotte (3)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek κᾰρωτόν (karōtón).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁɔt/

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Noun

carotte f (plural carottes)

1. carrot (vegetable)
2. carotte (cylindrical roll of tobacco)
3. (by extension) the red sign outside a tabac or bar-tabac
4. core sample (of sediment, ice, etc)

Derived terms

• carottes Vichy
• la carotte et le bâton
• les carottes sont cuites

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: carrota
• → English: carotte
• → German: Karotte

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

1393 garroite, 1538 carote, 1564 carotte. Borrowed from Latin carota.

Noun

carotte f (plural carottes)

1. carrot (vegetable)

Descendants

• → English: carrot
• French: carotte

References

• carotte on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (carotte, supplement)