couteau

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French

Noun

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• autocue

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French

Etymology

From Old French coutel, from Latin cultellus, diminutive of culter (“knife, plough blade”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.to/

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Noun

couteau m (plural couteaux)

1. knife

Related terms

• coutelier

See also

• fourchette

Further reading

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