châtelet
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French chastelet (“a small castle”). By surface analysis, château + -et (diminutive suffix). Compare Italian castelletto (“a small castle; a line of credit”) and English castlet (“a small castle”), with the same derivation.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
châtelet m (plural châtelets)
Further reading[edit]
- “châtelet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.