département

See also: departement, Departement, Département, and dêpartément

English

Etymology

From French département. Doublet of department.

Noun

département (plural départements)

1. An administrative unit in various French-speaking countries, smaller than a région, similar to an English county.
   • 2016, Philippe Bezes, “Challenges to French Public Administration: Mapping the Vitality of Its Knowledge Sources”, in Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman, Amy G[ale] Mazur, editors, The Oxford Handbook of French Politics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part III (Institutions), page 265:

     On the other hand, the political–territorial pattern has been maintained but also redirected at the départemental level by the transformation of former ministerial départemental directorates into inter-ministerial units, under the supervision of the prefects of the département.

Related terms

• départemental

Translations

administrative unit in various French-speaking countries

• Antillean Creole: dépatman
• Danish: departement (da) n
• Esperanto: departemento
• Finnish: departementti (fi)
• French: département (fr) m
• German: Departement (de) n, Département (de) n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: departement n

  Nynorsk: departement n

• Portuguese: departamento (pt) m
• Russian: департамент (ru) m (departament)
• Spanish: departamento (es) m
• Swedish: departement (sv) n

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French departement, from departir +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃/

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Noun

département m (plural départements)

1. department
2. département

Derived terms

• départemental

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: depatman
• → Catalan: departament
• → Danish: departement
• → English: département
• → Finnish: departementti
• → Galician: departamento
• → Moore: departma
• → Portuguese: departamento
• → Romanian: departament
• → Spanish: departamento
• → Persian: دپارتمان (depârtemân)
• → Turkish: departman

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• empétardent