carotte
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From 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.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Carotte_vendeur_tabac.jpg/220px-Carotte_vendeur_tabac.jpg)
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)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Seychellois Creole: karot
- Mauritian Creole: karot
- → Catalan: carrota
- → English: carotte
- → German: Karotte
- → Vietnamese: cà rốt
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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