arête
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈɹɛt/, /əˈɹeɪt/
Noun
arête (plural arêtes)
- (geology) A very thin ridge of rock.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 88:
- In his old department in Zürich, they sit in glass cases: models to the life of the peaks he had studied, with the strata painted beautifully and accurately, passing over arête and valley alike.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 88:
Translations
French
Etymology
Old French areste, from Latin arista.
Noun
arête f (plural arêtes)
Further reading
- “arête” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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