volet

English

closed triptych showing the backside of the two volets (sense 2)

Etymology

Borrowed from French volet.

Noun

volet (plural volets)

1. A shutter on a window.
2. (art) Either wing of a triptych.
   • 2009, Mario Buhagiar, Essays on the Knights and Art and Architecture in Malta, 1500–1798, →ISBN, page 85:

     Painted on panel, and possibly the central volet of a triptych, it showed an enthroned Madonna rescuing from Satan a young man whom she clutches by the wrist.

Anagrams

• VoLTE, tovel, volte

French

Etymology

From voler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.lɛ/

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Noun

volet m (plural volets)

1. (window) shutter
2. (aviation) flap
3. (art) volet, wing (of a triptych)
4. (figurative) section, part (of a trilogy, plan, etc.)
   • 2023 October 21, “L’Assemblée nationale rejette les motions de censure du RN et de LFI, le premier volet du budget 2024 adopté”, in Le Monde.fr‎^[1]:

     L’Assemblée nationale rejette les motions de censure du RN et de LFI, le premier volet du budget 2024 adopté [title]

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5. (rare) nenuphar

Derived terms

• trier sur le volet (“to handpick”)

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɔ.ɫɛt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɔː.let]

Etymology 1

Verb

volet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of volō (“to fly”)

Etymology 2

Verb

volet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of volō (“to wish”)
2. third-person singular present active indicative of voleō (“to wish”)