carreau
See also: Carreau
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French carreau. Doublet of quarrel.
Noun
[edit]carreau (plural carreaux)
- A Haitian unit of land, 100 square pas: roughly 1.3 hectares or 3.2 acres.
- 2013, Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Freedom's Seekers:
- In 1809 and 1814, land reform in southern and western Haiti resulted in the estimated redistribution of some 76,000 carreaux of land among 2,322 civil and military officers.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French quarel, from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus from Classical Latin quadrus. Compare Italian quadrello, Spanish cuadrillo.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ka.ʁo/
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Noun
[edit]carreau m (plural carreaux)
- square (as a geometrical shape)
- (card games) diamonds (card suit)
- tile (compare with carrelage, meaning tiles or tiling)
- windowpane
- bolt (crossbow projectile)
- (Haiti) a unit of land, 100 square pas (where a pas is 3.5 French feet or pieds): roughly 1.3 hectares or 3.2 acres
- (Louisiana) plot, patch (of land, of cloth)
- (in the plural, colloquial, dated) eyeglasses
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Bulgarian: каро́ (karó)
- → English: carreau
- → German: Karo n
- → Occitan: carrèu
- → Catalan: carreu
- → Polish: karo n
- → Romanian: carou
- → Turkish: karo
- → Vietnamese: ca-rô
See also
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Further reading
[edit]- “carreau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French quarel, from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, from Classical Latin quadrus.
Noun
[edit]carreau m (plural carreaux)
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| tchoeu | carreau | picl'ye | trêfl'ye |
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