trottoir

See also: Trottoir

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French trottoir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɒtˈwɑː(ɹ)/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /tɹɒtˈwɔː(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Noun

trottoir (plural trottoirs)

1. (archaic) A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.

   Synonyms: (American English) sidewalk, (British English) pavement, (Australia, New Zealand and India) footpath

   • 1869, William Maxwell Blackburn, Admiral Coligny, and the Rise of the Huguenots:

     Head-less bodies were trailed along the trottoirs.

Translations

sidewalk — see sidewalk

Further reading

• “trottoir”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French trottoir.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

trottoir n (plural trottoirs, diminutive trottoirtje n)

1. sidewalk (US), pavement (UK), footpath (Australia, India, New Zealand)

   Synonym: stoep

Descendants

• → Indonesian: trotoar
• → Petjo: tattowaar

French

Etymology

From trotter +‎ -oir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ.twaʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

trottoir m (plural trottoirs)

1. sidewalk, pavement, footpath (paved path located at the side of a road for the use of pedestrians)
   • 1894, Crafty, À travers Paris, page 11:

     Les véhicules enluminés stationnent alignés au bas des trottoirs, pendant que leurs attelages étirent leurs membres fatigués et allument la réconfortante cigarette.

     The illuminated vehicles park in rows along the sidewalks, while their teams stretch their tired limbs and light a comforting cigarette.

Derived terms

• faire le trottoir
• fille de trottoir
• uritrottoir

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: twotwa
• → Alemannic German: Trottuar
• → Bulgarian: тротоар (trotoar)
• → Dutch: trottoir
  • → Indonesian: trotoar
  • → Petjo: tattowaar
• → Esperanto: trotuaro
• → Central Franconian: Trottwa, Trottewa
• → German: Trottoir
• → Georgian: ტროტუარი (ṭroṭuari)
• → Ladino: trotuar
• → Luxembourgish: Trottoir, Trëttoir
• → Polish: trotuar
• → Romanian: trotuar
• → Rhine Franconian: Trottwa, Trottewa
• → Russian: тротуа́р (trotuár)
• → Serbo-Croatian: trotòār, трото̀а̄р
• → Swedish: trottoar
• → Turkish: tretuvar
• → Yiddish: טראָטואַר (trotuar)

Further reading

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