sauterelle

English

Etymology

French

Noun

sauterelle (plural sauterelles)

1. An instrument used by masons and others to trace and form angles.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sauterelle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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French

Etymology

From sauter + -elle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.tʁɛl/

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Noun

sauterelle f (plural sauterelles)

1. grasshopper

Further reading

• “sauterelle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).