carotte

See also: carotté and cârotte

English

Alternative forms

• carot

Etymology

From French carotte. Doublet of carrot.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɑt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɒt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

carotte (plural carottes)

1. A cylindrical roll of tobacco

   a carotte of perique

   • 1957, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Sublime Tobacco:

     He himself was obviously a non-smoker, and probably a total abstainer as well. I do not like to end this factual account of my smoking life with hard thoughts about a non-smoking official who deprived me of a carotte of tobacco.

Anagrams

• cotreat

French

carotte (sense 3)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek κᾰρωτόν (kărōtón).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁɔt/

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Noun

carotte f (plural carottes)

1. carrot (vegetable)
2. carotte (cylindrical roll of tobacco)
4. (by extension) the red sign outside a tabac or bar-tabac
5. core sample (of sediment, ice, etc)

Derived terms

• carottes Vichy
• la carotte et le bâton
• les carottes sont cuites

Descendants

• Guianese Creole: karòt
• Haitian Creole: karòt
• Mauritian Creole: karot
• Réunion Creole French: karot
• Seychellois Creole: karot
• → Catalan: carrota
• → English: carotte
• → German: Karotte
• → Khmer: ការ៉ុត (kaarot)
• → Vietnamese: cà rốt

Further reading

• “carotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Middle French

Etymology

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

Noun

carotte f (plural carottes)

1. carrot (vegetable)

Descendants

• French: carotte
  • Guianese Creole: karòt
  • Haitian Creole: karòt
  • Mauritian Creole: karot
  • Réunion Creole French: karot
  • Seychellois Creole: karot
  • → Catalan: carrota
  • → English: carotte
  • → German: Karotte
  • → Khmer: ការ៉ុត (kaarot)
  • → Vietnamese: cà rốt
• → Middle English: karette
  • English: carrot
    • → Fijian: kareti
    • → Malay: karot
    • → Tagalog: karot
    • → Tamil: கேரட் (kēraṭ), காரட் (kāraṭ), கரட் (karaṭ), கேரட்டு (kēraṭṭu), காரட்டு (kāraṭṭu), கரட்டு (karaṭṭu)
    • → Thai: แครอท (kɛɛ-rɔ̀t)
    • → Ulithian: kaerret
  • Yola: correate, coureate
• → Irish: cairéad

References

• carotte on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “carotte”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.