carreau
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French quarel, from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus from Classical Latin quadrus. Compare Italian quadrello, Spanish cuadrillo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ʁo/
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Noun
carreau m (plural carreaux)
- square (as a geometrical shape)
- (card games) diamonds (card suit)
- tile (compare with carrelage, meaning tiles or tiling)
- windowpane
- bolt (crossbow projectile)
- (Haiti) a unit of land, 100 square pas (where a pas is 3.5 French feet or pieds): roughly 1.3 hectares or 3.2 acres
- (Louisiana) plot, patch (of land, of cloth)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “carreau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French quarel, from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, from Classical Latin quadrus.
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