gazette

gazette

See also: gâzette and Gazette

English

Etymology

1605; borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetian 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.
2. (law, often capitalized and italicized in legislations) A 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 translations at newspaper

Armenian: տեղեկագիր (hy) (tełekagir) Bulgarian: ве́стник (bg) m (véstnik) Catalan: gaseta (ca) f Finnish: sanomalehti (fi) German: Gazette (de) f 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 Maori: kāhiti Polish: gazeta (pl) f Portuguese: gazeta (pt) f Russian: газе́та (ru) f (gazéta) Spanish: gaceta f Tagalog: gaseta Tamil: செய்தித்தாள் (ta) (ceytittāḷ) Turkish: gazete (tr)

official publication

German: Amtsblatt (de) n, Anzeiger m

Verb

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

1. To publish in a gazette.
2. (Britain) To announce the status of in an official gazette. This pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.
   • 1938, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 12, in Homage to Catalonia‎, London: Secker & Warburg:

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

Derived terms

• degazette

Translations

publish 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)

See also

• dime novel
• penny dreadful

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French

Etymology

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
• → Khmer: កាសែត (kaasaet)
• → Polish: gazeta
• → Russian: газе́та (gazéta)
  • ⇒ Azerbaijani: qəzet
  • ⇒ Bashkir: гәзит (gäzit)
  • → Buryat: газетэ (gazjete)
  • ⇒ Bezhta: газит (gazit)
  • → Georgian: გაზეთ- (gazet-, stem), გაზეთი (gazeti, nominative singular)
  • ⇒ Kazakh:

    Arabic: گازەت‎ (gazet)

    Cyrillic: газет (gazet)

  • ⇒ Kyrgyz: гезит (gezit)
  • ⇒ Kildin Sami: газет (gaz’et)
  • ⇒ 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 (xahıat)
• → 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.

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West Flemish

Etymology

Borrowed from French gazette.

Noun

gazette f

1. newspaper (printed sheet published periodically)