fiacre

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiacre. From Hôtel de Saint Fiacre, a tavern in Paris operating a horse-carriage service from the 1640s, itself named after the Irish Saint Fiacre (c. 600–670 CE), perhaps from Irish fiach (“raven”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɪˈɑːkɹə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

fiacre (plural fiacres)

1. (historical) A small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.
   • 1766, T[obias] Smollett, Travels through France and Italy. […], volume I, London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC, page 94:

     On the road to Choissi, a fiacre, or hackney-coach, stopped, and out came five or six men, armed with musquets, who took post, each behind a separate tree.

   • 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors‎^[1]:

     Poor Jim, with his arms folded and his little legs out in the open fiacre, drank in the sparkling Paris noon and carried his eyes from one side of their vista to the other.

   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 633:

     The boy who might have fetched us a fiacre was now doing something else, so we had to go back to the station, and there we found only one, which was falling to pieces.

Translations

small carriage for hire

• Catalan: fiacre m
• Czech: fiakr (cs) m
• Esperanto: fiakro
• French: fiacre (fr) m
• German: Fiaker (de) m
• Hungarian: fiáker (hu)
• Ido: fiakro (io)
• Italian: fiacre m
• Macedonian: фијаке́р m (fijakér)
• Portuguese: fiacre (pt) m
• Swedish: fiaker (sv) c

Anagrams

• carfie

French

Etymology

See fiacre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjakʁ/

Noun

fiacre m (plural fiacres)

1. fiacre

Further reading

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

Italian

Alternative forms

• fiacchere

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiacre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjakr/
  • Rhymes: -akr
  • Hyphenation: fiàcr
• (Tuscan pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfjak.ke.re/

Noun

fiacre m (plural fiacri)

1. fiacre

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈa.kɾi/ [fɪˈa.kɾi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈfja.kɾi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈa.kɾi/ [fɪˈa.kɾi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈfja.kɾi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈa.kɾe/ [fɪˈa.kɾe], (faster pronunciation) /ˈfja.kɾe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfja.kɾɨ/

• Hyphenation: fi‧a‧cre

Noun

fiacre m (plural fiacres)

1. fiacre (small carriage for hire)