marmot
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Marmota caligata
English
Etymology
From Middle French marmote, from Old French marmotaine, marmontaine, murmontain, from Old Franco-Provençal marmotan, from Vulgar Latin *mures montani, from Latin mus monti (“mountain rat”); akin to Engadin Romansch murmont, Old High German muremunto (dialectal German Murmentel, standard Murmeltier).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɑː.mət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹ.mət/
- Rhymes: -ɑɹmət
- Hyphenation: mar‧mot
Noun
marmot (plural marmots)
- Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
rodent of the genera Marmota
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See also
Further reading
marmot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Marmota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Marmota on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French marmotte. Possibly related to Middle Dutch marmotte (“goblin, kobold”).
Pronunciation
Noun
marmot f (plural marmotten)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: marmot
- → Caribbean Javanese: marmut
- → Indonesian: marmot
- → Japanese: モルモット (morumotto, “guinea pig”)
- → Korean: 모르모트 (moreumoteu)
- → Papiamentu: marmòt
French
Etymology
Probably from marmotter.
Pronunciation
Noun
marmot m (plural marmots, feminine marmotte)
- (archaic) an architectural grotesque, especially a door knocker
- (colloquial) kid, brat
- 2015 [2004], Stéphane Dompierre, Un petit pas pour l'homme [A small step for man], →ISBN, page 171:
- — C’est bon. Et en lui posant des questions sur elle, tu finis par apprendre qu’elle a un marmot. Tu fais quoi ?
- "That's alright. And by asking her questions about her, you end up learning she has a kid. What are you doing?"
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Italian: marmaglia, marmocchio
Further reading
- “marmot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Norman
Etymology
Noun
marmot m (plural marmots)