couteau

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French couteau

Noun[edit]

couteau (plural couteaus or couteaux)

  1. (obsolete) A knife; a dagger.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “couteau”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old French coutel, from Latin cultellus, diminutive of culter (knife, plough blade). Not related to couper.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ku.to/
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

couteau m (plural couteaux)

  1. knife
    Synonym: (slang) schlass

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