département

See also: departement, Departement, and dêpartément

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French département.

Noun

département (plural départements)

1. An administrative unit in various French-speaking countries, smaller than a région, similar to an English county.

Translations

administrative unit in various French-speaking countries

• Antillean Creole: dépatman
• Esperanto: departemento
• French: département (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Departement (de) n
• Portuguese: departamento (pt) m

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French

Etymology

From Old French département, 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

• → Catalan: departament
• → English: département
• → Galician: departamento
• → Portuguese: departamento
• → Spanish: departamento

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• empétardent