patrouille

From French patrouille, from Old French patrouille, patouille (“a night-watch”, literally “a tramping about”), from patrouiller, patouiller, patoiller (“to paddle or pudder in water, dabble with the feet, begrime, besmear”), from patte, pate (“paw, foot of an animal”), from Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), from Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *paþjaną, *paþōną (“to walk, tread, go, step, pace”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-, *(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *pent-, *pat- (“path; to go”); see find. Cognate with Low German pedden (“to step, tread”), German patschen (“to splash, smack, dabble, waddle”), German Patsche (“a swatter, beater, paw, puddle, mire”). Related to pad, patte.

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• Hyphenation: pa‧trouil‧le

patrouille c (plural patrouilles)

1. patrol

• patrouilleren

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patrouille f (plural patrouilles)

1. patrol

• English: patrol
• Portuguese: patrulha
• Spanish: patrulla

patrouille

1. first-person singular present indicative of patrouiller
2. third-person singular present indicative of patrouiller
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of patrouiller
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of patrouiller
5. second-person singular imperative of patrouiller

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

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