culotte

See also: culotté

English

Etymology

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Borrowed from French culotte f.

Noun

culotte (plural culottes)

1. singular of culottes

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French

Etymology

Etymology tree

French cul

French -otte

French culotte

From cul m +‎ -otte f. Equivalent to the feminine derivative of culot m.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.lɔt/

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Noun

culotte f (plural culottes)

1. (a pair of) panties, knickers
2. trousers, pants; shorts
3. (historical) breeches

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Derived terms

• culotter
• petite culotte f
• porter la culotte
• poser culotte
• sans-culotte

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: キュロット (kyurotto)
• → Portuguese: culote m, calote m
• → Romanian: chilot m
• → Spanish: culote m
• → Turkish: külot, kilot

See also

• pantalon m

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Borrowed from French culotte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈlot/ [kuˈlot̪]
• Rhymes: -ot

Noun

culotte m (plural culottes)

1. Alternative form of culote

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Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “culotte”, 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