fauteuil

See also: Fauteuil

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French. See faldistory.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəʊˈtɜː.i/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊ.tɪl/

Noun

fauteuil (plural fauteuils)

1. An armchair.
2. The chair of a presiding officer.
3. (by extension) Membership in the Académie française.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “fauteuil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French fauteuil. Doublet of vouwstoel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foːˈtœy̯/

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Noun

fauteuil m (plural fauteuils, diminutive fauteuiltje n)

1. armchair

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French faudestuel, faldestoel, borrowed from Frankish *faldistōl (“folding seat”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *faldistōlaz (“foldstool, folding chair”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo.tœj/

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Noun

fauteuil m (plural fauteuils)

1. armchair

Derived terms

• fauteuil roulant
• fauteuil à bascule

Descendants

• → Belarusian: фатэль (fatelʹ)
• → Bulgarian: фотьо́йл (fotjójl)
• → English: fauteuil
• → Dutch: fauteuil
• → German: Fauteuil
  • → Hungarian: fotel
  • → Luxembourgish: Fotell
  • → Macedonian: фотелја (fotelja)
  • → Polish: fotel
  • → Romanian: fotoliu
  • → Swedish: fåtölj
  • → Ukrainian: фоте́ль (fotélʹ)

Further reading

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