arête

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See also: arete, areté, and aretê

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from French arête, from Latin arista. Doublet of arista.

Pronunciation

Noun

arête (plural arêtes)

  1. (geology) A very thin ridge of rock.
    • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 88:
      In his old department in Zürich, they sit in glass cases: models to the life of the peaks he had studied, with the strata painted beautifully and accurately, passing over arête and valley alike.

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French areste, from Latin arista.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ʁɛt/
    • Audio (Paris, France) (une arête)(file)
  • (Eastern Quebec) IPA(key):
  • (Western Quebec) IPA(key): or IPA(key):
In Quebec French, "ê" is pronounced in closed syllables in most words. In Eastern Quebec, both arête and arrête are among the exemptions from this rule; in Western Quebec only arête is pronounced with /ɛ/, and only by some speakers.

Homophones: arêtes, arrête, arrêtes, arrêtent

Noun

arête f (plural arêtes)

  1. (zoology) bone (of a fish), fishbone
  2. edge (of an object); ridge, crest (of mountain)
  3. (architecture) groin (of vault)
  4. bridge of nose
  5. (botany) beard (of rye, barley etc.); awn
  6. (graph theory) edge

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