carotte

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See also: carotté and cârotte

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

French carotte. Doublet of carrot.

Noun

carotte (plural carottes)

  1. A cylindrical roll of tobacco
    a carotte of perique
    • 1957, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Sublime Tobacco:
      He himself was obviously a non-smoker, and probably a total abstainer as well. I do not like to end this factual account of my smoking life with hard thoughts about a non-smoking official who deprived me of a carotte of tobacco.

Anagrams

French

carotte (3)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek κᾰρωτόν (karōtón).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.ʁɔt/
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Noun

carotte f (plural carottes)

  1. carrot (vegetable)
  2. carotte (cylindrical roll of tobacco)
  3. (by extension) the red sign outside a tabac or bar-tabac
  4. core sample (of sediment, ice, etc)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: carrota
  • English: carotte
  • German: Karotte
  • Vietnamese: cà rốt

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

1393 garroite, 1538 carote, 1564 carotte. Borrowed from Latin carota.

Noun

carotte f (plural carottes)

  1. carrot (vegetable)

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Etymology and history of carotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
  • carotte on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (carotte, supplement)