gazette

See also: gâzette and Gazette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈzɛt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

gazette (plural gazettes)

1. A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically. [from 1605]
2. (law, often capitalized and italicized in legislations) An official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.

Derived terms

• gazetteer
• have one's name in the Gazette
• official gazette

 

Descendants

• → Kikuyu: ngathĩti
• → Maori: kāhiti
• → Swahili: gazeti

Translations

newspaper — see also newspaper

• Armenian: տեղեկագիր (hy) (teġekagir)
• Bulgarian: ве́стник (bg) m (véstnik)
• Catalan: gaseta (ca) f
• Finnish: sanomalehti (fi)
• German: Gazette (de) f
• Greek: γαζέττα f (gazétta)
• Hindi: गजेटियर (hi) m (gajeṭiyar), गैजेटियर (hi) m (gaijeṭiyar), गैजेट (hi) m (gaijeṭ)
• Ido: jurnalo (io)
• Italian: gazzetta (it) f
• Latin: acta diurna n pl, acta (la) n pl, diurnum n
• Maltese: gazzetta (mt) f, ġurnal m
• Maori: kāhiti
• Ottoman Turkish: غزته (gazeta, gazete), روزنامه (ruzname), جریده (ceride)
• Polish: gazeta (pl) f
• Portuguese: gazeta (pt) f
• Russian: газе́та (ru) f (gazéta)
• Spanish: gaceta (es) f
• Tagalog: gaseta
• Tamil: செய்தித்தாள் (ta) (ceytittāḷ)
• Turkish: gazete (tr)

official publication

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 憲報 / 宪报 (hin³ bou³)

  Mandarin: 公報 / 公报 (zh) (gōngbào), 憲報 / 宪报 (Xiànbào)

• German: Amtsblatt (de) n, Anzeiger (de) m
• Indonesian: berita negara (id)
• Japanese: 官報 (ja) (kanpō)
• Malay: warta (ms)
• Maltese: gazzetta (mt) f
• Polish: dziennik urzędowy m

Verb

gazette (third-person singular simple present gazettes, present participle gazetting, simple past and past participle gazetted) (transitive)

1. To publish (something) in a gazette.
2. (UK) To announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette; this pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.

   Synonym: gazetteer

   • 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major.

Derived terms

• degazette

Translations

to publish (something) in a gazette

• Georgian: გაზეთში გამოქვეყნება (gazetši gamokveq̇neba), გაზეთში დაბეჭდვა (gazetši dabeč̣dva)
• Hindi: गैजेटेड (hi) m (gaijeṭeḍ)
• Maori: kāhiti
• Russian: печа́тать в газе́те impf (pečátatʹ v gazéte), напеча́тать в газе́те pf (napečátatʹ v gazéte), опублико́вывать в газе́те impf (opublikóvyvatʹ v gazéte), опубликова́ть в газе́те pf (opublikovátʹ v gazéte)

to announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette

See also

• dime novel
• penny dreadful

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian gazzetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.zɛt/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

gazette f (plural gazettes)

1. gazette

Descendants

• → Amharic: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa)
• → Belarusian: газе́та (hazjéta)
• → Breton: kazetenn
• → English: gazette
  • → Kikuyu: ngathĩti
  • → Maori: kāhiti
  • → Swahili: gazeti
• → German: Gazette
  • → Silesian: gazyta
• → Khmer: កាសែត (kaasaet)
• → Polish: gazeta
  • → Kashubian: gazéta
• → Russian: газе́та (gazéta)
  • ⇒ Azerbaijani: qəzet
  • ⇒ Bashkir: гәзит (gəzit)
  • → Buryat: газетэ (gazjete)
  • ⇒ Bezhta: газит (gazit)
  • → Georgian: გაზეთ- (gazet-, stem), გაზეთი (gazeti, nominative singular)
  • ⇒ Kazakh:

    Arabic script: گازەت (gazet)

    Cyrillic script: газет (gazet)

  • ⇒ Kyrgyz: гезит (gezit)
  • ⇒ Kildin Sami: газет (gazjet)
  • ⇒ Skolt Sami: gaʹzaat, gaʹzeâʹt
  • ⇒ Southern Altai: газет (gazet)
  • → Tajik: газета (gazeta)
  • ⇒ Tatar: газет (ğazet), гәзит (gäzit)
  • ⇒ Turkmen: gazet
  • ⇒ Uyghur: گېزىت (gëzit)
  • → Uzbek: gazeta
  • ⇒ Yakut: хаһыат (qahıat)
• → Tigrinya: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa)
• → Ukrainian: газе́та (hazéta)
• → West Flemish: gazette

Further reading

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

West Flemish

Etymology

Borrowed from French gazette.

Noun

gazette f

1. newspaper (printed sheet published periodically)