croquis

English

Croquis drawing of a woman

Etymology

Borrowed from French croquis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹoʊˈkiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

croquis (plural croquis)

1. (art) A quick and sketchy drawing, often of a live model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose and another croquis is drawn.

Translations

a quick and sketchy drawing

• French: croquis (fr) m
• German: flüchtige Skizze, grobe Skizze, schnelle Zeichnung
• Italian: croquis m
• Korean: 크로키 (keuroki), 스케치 (seukechi), 사생화 (sasaenghwa), 속사 (soksa), 약화 (yakhwa), 략화 (ryakhwa) (dialectal: North Korea)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French croquis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɾɔ.kis]

Noun

croquis m (invariable)

1. sketch

Derived terms

• croquisar

Further reading

• “croquis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “croquis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “croquis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “croquis” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From croquer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁɔ.ki/

• Audio:

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Noun

croquis m (plural croquis)

1. sketch

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: croqui, croquis
• → Catalan: croquis
• → English: croquis
• → Hungarian: kroki
• → Italian: croquis
• → Korean: 크로키 (keuroki)
• → Spanish: croquis

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croquis.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɾoˈkis/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɾoˈkis/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kɾoˈkiʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɾɔˈkiʃ/

• Hyphenation: cro‧quis

Noun

croquis m (invariable)

1. Alternative form of croqui

Noun

croquis

1. plural of croqui

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French croquis.

Noun

croquis m (plural croquis)

1. a sketch

   Synonyms: esbozo, boceto, bosquejo

2. (climbing) topo

Further reading

• “croquis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10