stationnement

French

Etymology

stationner + -ment The word has been in use in French for a long time. Only in the sense of "parking lot" or "parking space" is this a quebecism (originally "parc de stationnement") coined by the Office québécois de la langue française to replace the anglicism parking within French in official use.

Noun

stationnement m (plural stationnements)

  1. parking (only in the sense of "act/process of parking")
  2. parking space
  3. car park, parking lot

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