profiterole

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

French profiterolebor.

English profiterole

Borrowed from French profiterole.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfɪtəɹoʊl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

profiterole (plural profiteroles)

1. A small, hollow case of choux pastry with a filling.
   • 1973, “Grand Hotel”, in Grand Hotel, performed by Procol Harum:

     Dover sole, and Oeufs Mornay
     Profiteroles and Peach Flambe
     The waiters dance on fingertips
     The nights we dine at Hotel Ritz

Usage notes

• Most often having a cream filling, and served with a chocolate sauce

Translations

choux pastry with filling

• Bulgarian: профитеро́л m or c (profiteról)
• Catalan: profiterola f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泡芙 (zh) (pàofú)

• Finnish: tuulihattu (fi)
• French: profiterole (fr) m
• German: Windbeutel (de) m
• Greek: προφιτερόλ (el) n (profiteról)
• Hungarian: profiterol (hu)
• Italian: profiterole (it) m, profitterol (it) m
• Kazakh: профитроли (profitroli)
• Kyrgyz: профитроли (profitroli)
• Polish: profiterolka f
• Portuguese: profiterole m
• Russian: профитро́ль (ru) m (profitrólʹ)
• Slovak: veterník m
• Spanish: profiterol (es) m
• Turkish: profiterol (tr)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French profiterole.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

profiterole f (plural profiteroles, no diminutive)

1. profiterole

French

Etymology

From profit +‎ -erole, i.e. "benefit" + diminutive suffix, a small treat given as a reward.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.fi.tʁɔl/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

profiterole f (plural profiteroles)

1. profiterole

Descendants

• → Catalan: profiterola
• → Dutch: profiterole
• → English: profiterole
• → Polish: profiterolka
• → Romanian: profiterol
• → Russian: профитро́ль (profitrólʹ)

Further reading

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

Italian

Alternative forms

• profitterol (nonstandard)

Etymology

Borrowed from French profiterole. The nonstandard pronunciation with -tt- is due to influence of profitto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pro.fi.teˈrɔl/, (careful style) /pro.fiˈtrɔl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔl
• (nonstandard) IPA^(key): /pro.fit.teˈrɔl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

profiterole m (plural profiteroles)

1. profiterole

Further reading

• profiterole in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)