carotte

See also: carotté and cârotte

English

Etymology

French carotte

Noun

carotte (plural carottes)

  1. A cylindrical roll of tobacco.
    a carotte of perique

Anagrams

French

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
  2. The red sign outside a tabac or bar-tabac

Further reading

Interlingue

Noun

carotte

  1. carrot

Middle French

Etymology

1393 garroite, 1538 carote, 1564 carotte. Borrowed from Latin carota[1].

Noun

carotte f (plural carottes)

  1. carrot (vegetable)

Descendants

References
  1. “carotte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
  • 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)
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