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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French caoutchouc, from Spanish caucho, from Quechua kawchu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkaʊt͡ʃʊk/, /ˈkaʊt͡ʃuk/
Noun
caoutchouc (countable and uncountable, plural caoutchoucs)
- (obsolete) Latex; natural rubber.
- Synonyms: caoutchouc, india rubber
1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205:Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cauchuc (an early variant of caucho), from Quechua kawchu. The final -c was formerly variably pronounced or silent, but is now always silent.
Pronunciation
Noun
caoutchouc m (plural caoutchoucs)
- rubber (natural and synthetic)
- Synonym: gomme
- (Louisiana, Cajun) plastic
- Synonym: plastique
- a rubber tree, hevea (Hevea brasiliensis)
- a rubber fig, a tropical tree often used ornamentally (Ficus elastica)
- a raincoat
- Synonyms: imperméable, K-way
- (in the plural) waterproof rubber boots
- Synonym: bottes de pluie
- a rubber band
- Synonym: élastique
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