patois

English

Etymology

1635, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French patois (“regional dialect or language”).

Pronunciation

Singular

• enPR: păʹtwä', päʹtwä', IPA^(key): /ˈpæˌtwɑ/, /ˈpɑˌtwɑ/

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• Hyphenation: pat‧ois

Plural

• enPR: păʹtwäz', păʹtwä', päʹtwäz', päʹtwä', IPA^(key): /ˈpæˌtwɑz/, /ˈpæˌtwɑ/, /ˈpɑˌtwɑz/, /ˈpɑˌtwɑ/
• Hyphenation: pat‧ois

Noun

patois (countable and uncountable, plural patois)

1. A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard.
2. Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
3. Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti).
4. Jamaican Patois, a Jamaican Creole language primarily based on English and African languages but also has influences from Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi.
5. Jargon or cant.

Translations

regional dialect of a language

• Dutch: streektaal (nl) c
• Esperanto: loklingvo
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: ντοπιολαλιά (el) (ntopiolaliá)
• Serbo-Croatian: regiolekt m
• Spanish: dialecto (es) m

Anagrams

• POSITA, patios, spatio-, taipos

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French patois (“local dialect”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French patois (“incomprehensible speech, rude language”), alteration (due to influence of the suffix -ois in words relating to nationalities and languages) of earlier *patoi, a deverbal of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French patoier (“to gesticulate, handle clumsily, paw”), from pate (“paw”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *pat-, *paþa- (“to walk, tread, go, step”), of uncertain origin and relation. Possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-/*(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *pent-/*pat- (“path; to go”). Cognate with Dutch pat, Low German pedden (“to step, tread”). Related to pad, path.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.twa/

Noun

patois m (plural patois)

1. patois (French dialect)
2. patois (any regional dialect)
   • Gustave Flaubert - Salammbô, page 29.

     On entendait, à côté du lourd patois dorien, retentir les syllabes celtiques bruissantes comme des chars de bataille,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (Louisiana) saying, maxim, proverb, adage

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• optais, posait, postai

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Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French patois.

Noun

patois m (uncountable)

1. patois

Anagrams

• ospita, posati, postai, sopita, spiato