créole

See also: creole, Creole, and Créole

French

Etymology

An adaptation of the Castilian (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish criollo (“homey, local yokel”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria (“person raised in one’s house, servant”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese criar (“to rear, to bring up”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin creo (“to create”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁe.ɔl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Homophone: créoles

Noun

créole m or f (plural créoles)

1. Creole

Noun

créole m (plural créoles)

1. (linguistics) creole language

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• colère
• éclore