paletot

See also: paletôt

English

Etymology

From French paletot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalɪtəʊ/

Noun

paletot (plural paletots)

1. (historical) A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.
2. A women’s fitted jacket.
   • 1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature (page 93)

     For morning fetes is worn with this dress a small white muslin paletot, without sleeves, split up the back, trimmed with two gauffred frills, edged with Valenciennes, and a narrow puffing, lined with satin ribbon.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 833:

     Kit caught sight of Dally in the Principessa’s borrowed gown and a dark silk paletot, her incendiary hair done up in an ostrich-plume aigrette dyed indigo

Translations

A loose outer jacket, overcoat

• Afrikaans: jas
• Albanian: pallto (sq)
• Catalan: abric (ca) m, gavany m, paltó m, sobretot (ca) m
• Danish: frakke n
• Dutch: jas (nl) m, overjas (nl) m
• Esperanto: palto
• Estonian: mantel (et), palitu
• Finnish: palttoo (fi)
• French: paletot (fr) m
• German: Mantel (de) m, Paletot (de) m, Überrock m, Überzieher (de) m
• Greek: σακάκι (el) n (sakáki), μανδύας (el) m (mandýas), παλτό (el) n (paltó)
• Hungarian: kabát (hu), felöltő (hu)
• Ido: paltoto (io)
• Italian: paltò (it) m
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• Kurdish:
• Malagasy: palitao (mg)
• Malay: jas
• Norwegian: frakk (no) m
• Papiamentu: bachi, yas
• Polish: palto (pl) n
• Portuguese: casacão (pt) m, paletó (pt) m, sobretudo (pt) m
• Romanian: palton (ro) n
• Russian: пальто́ (ru) n (palʹtó)
• Scottish Gaelic: còta
• Spanish: gabán (es) m, paletó (es) m, sobretodo (es) m, abrigo (es) m
• Tagalog: amerikána (tl)
• Venetian: paltò (vec) m
• Walloon: paltot (wa) m

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French

Etymology

From Middle English paltok; first element related to Latin pallium (“cloak”), second element of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal.to/

• Audio:

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Noun

paletot m (plural paletots)

1. jacket

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• pelotât

References

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN