entresol

English

Etymology

From French entresol.

Noun

entresol (plural entresols)

1. A mezzanine; an intermediate floor in a building, typically resembling a balcony; most often, the floor immediately above the ground floor and below a higher floor.
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 68, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     The late lord in autumn filled Castlewood with company, who drank claret till midnight: the present man buries himself in a hut on a Scotch mountain, and passes November in two or three closets in an entresol at Paris, where his amusements are a dinner at a cafe and a box at a little theatre.

   • 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors‎^[1]:

     This idea, however, was luckily all before him again from the moment he crossed the threshold of the little entresol of the Quartier Marbœuf into which she had gathered, as she said, picking them up in a thousand flights and funny little passionate pounces, the makings of a final nest.

Translations

an intermediate floor in a building

• Belarusian: антрэсо́ль f (antresólʹ)
• Catalan: entresòl (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中層樓 / 中层楼 (zhōngcénglóu)

• Czech: mezanin (cs)
• Dutch: tussenverdieping (nl) f
• Esperanto: etaĝo
• Estonian: ülakorrus
• Finnish: puolikerros
• French: entresol (fr) m
• Galician: entrechán
• German: Zwischengeschoss (de) n, Galeriegeschoss n, Galerie (de) f, Halbgeschoss (de) n, Empore (de) f, Loge (de) f, Zwischenstock (de) m
• Hebrew: בּוֹיְדֶּעם \ בּוֹיְדֶּם (he) m (bóydem)
• Ido: entresolo (io)
• Kazakh: антресоль (antresol)
• Polish: antresola (pl) f
• Portuguese: mezanino (pt) m
• Russian: антресо́ль (ru) f (antresólʹ)
• Slovene: mezanin
• Spanish: entresuelo (es) m
• Swedish: mellan våning, entresol (sv) c
• Tamil: இடைமாடம் (iṭaimāṭam)
• Ukrainian: антресо́ль f (antresólʹ)
• Uzbek: antresol
• Vietnamese: tầng xép

French

Etymology

From entre- +‎ sol.

Noun

entresol m (plural entresols)

1. entresol

Descendants

• → English: entresol
• → Polish: antresola
• → Russian: антресоль (antresolʹ)
  • → Georgian: ანტრესოლი (anṭresoli)
• → Swedish: entresol

Further reading

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

Swedish

en entresol

Etymology

Borrowed from French entresol. First attested in 1796

Noun

entresol c

1. An entresol

   Synonym: mezzanin

Derived terms

• entresolplan (“entresol level”)
• entresolvåning (“entresol floor”)

References

• entresol in Svensk ordbok (SO)