cueillette
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French cueillette. Doublet of quillet.
Noun
cueillette (plural cueillettes)
- (Jersey) A subdivision of the parish of Saint Ouen, corresponding to a vingtaine in other parishes.
Translations
subdivision of the parish of Saint Ouen
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, from Latin collēcta (“contribution", "collection”). Compare Occitan culhida, Catalan collita, Portuguese colheita, Spanish cosecha. Compare also the borrowed doublet collecte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kœ.jɛt/
Audio (file)
Noun
cueillette f (plural cueillettes)
- gathering, collecting, picking (act of gathering, collecting or picking crops, or other items (payments, data))
Further reading
- “cueillette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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