couteau

English

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Etymology

From French couteau. Doublet of cuttle.

Noun

couteau (plural couteaus or couteaux)

  1. (obsolete) A knife; a dagger.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “couteau”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French coutel, from Latin cultellus, diminutive of culter (“knife, plough blade”); cognate with Italian coltello. Not related to couper.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ku.to/
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Noun

couteau m (plural couteaux)

  1. knife
    Synonym: (slang) schlass
  2. razor clam; any bivalve in the genus Solen.

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