gazette

See also: gâzette

English

Etymology

1605; borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetian gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈzɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

gazette (plural gazettes)

1. A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; especially, the official journal published by the British government, containing legal and state notices.

Derived terms

• gazetteer
• have one's name in the Gazette

Translations

newspaper — see also newspaper

• Armenian: տեղեկագիր (hy) (teġekagir)
• Bulgarian: ве́стник (bg) m (véstnik)
• Catalan: gaseta (ca) f
• Finnish: sanomalehti (fi)
• Hindi: गजेटियर (hi) m (gajeṭiyar), गैजेटियर (hi) m (gaijeṭiyar), गैजेट (hi) m (gaijeṭ)
• Ido: jurnalo (io)
• Italian: gazzetta (it) f
• Maori: kāhiti
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: gazeta (pl) f
• Portuguese: gazeta (pt) f
• Russian: газе́та (ru) f (gazéta)
• Spanish: gaceta f
• Tagalog: gaseta
• Tamil: செய்தித்தாள் (ta) (ceytittāḷ)
• Turkish: gazete (tr)

Descendants

• → Kikuyu: ngathĩti
• → Maori: kāhiti
• → Swahili: gazeti

Verb

1. To publish in a gazette.
2. (British) To announce the status of in an official gazette. This pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.
   • 1938, George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, Chapter 12, [1]

     Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major.

Derived terms

• degazette

Translations

publish in a gazette

• Georgian: გაზეთში გამოქვეყნება (gazetši gamokveq̇neba), გაზეთში დაბეჭდვა (gazetši dabeč̣dva)
• Hindi: गैजेटेड (hi) m (gaijeṭeḍ)
• Maori: kāhiti
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• Russian: печа́тать в газе́те impf (pečátatʹ v gazéte), напеча́тать в газе́те pf (napečátatʹ v gazéte), опублико́вывать в газе́те impf (opublikóvyvatʹ v gazéte), опубликова́ть в газе́те pf (opublikovátʹ v gazéte)

See also

• dime novel
• penny dreadful

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian gazzetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.zɛt/

• audio:

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Noun

gazette f (plural gazettes)

1. gazette

Descendants

• → English: gazette
  • → Kikuyu: ngathĩti
  • → Maori: kāhiti
  • → Swahili: gazeti
• → German: Gazette
• → Polish: gazeta
• → Russian: газета (gazeta)
  • ⇒ Azerbaijani: qəzet
  • ⇒ Bashkir: гәзит (gəzit)
  • → Buryat: газетэ (gazjete)
  • ⇒ Bezhta: газит (gazit)
  • → Georgian: გაზეთ- (gazet-, stem), გაზეთი (gazeti, nominative singular)
  • ⇒ Kazakh:

    Arabic script: گازەت (gazet)

    Cyrillic script: газет (gazet)

  • ⇒ Kyrgyz: гезит (gezit)
  • ⇒ Kildin Sami: газет (gazjet)
  • ⇒ Skolt Sami: gaʹzaat, gaʹzeâʹt
  • ⇒ Southern Altai: газет (gazet)
  • → Tajik: газета (gazeta)
  • ⇒ Tatar: газет (ğazet), гәзит (gäzit)
  • ⇒ Turkmen: gazet
  • ⇒ Uyghur: گېزىت (gëzit)
  • → Uzbek: gazeta
  • ⇒ Yakut: хаһыат (qahıat)
• → Ukrainian: газета (hazeta)
• → West Flemish: gazette

Further reading

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

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West Flemish

Etymology

Borrowed from French gazette.

Noun

gazette f

1. newspaper (printed sheet published periodically)