mascotte
English
Noun
mascotte (plural mascottes)
- Archaic form of mascot. (bringer of good luck)
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Noun
mascotte f or m (plural mascottes, diminutive mascotje n or mascottetje n)
- mascot
French
mascotte
Etymology
From Provençal mascoto, from masco (“witch”), from Old Occitan masca, from Medieval Latin masca, from a stem *maska, *mask- (“black”) believed to be of Pre-Indo-European origin giving rise to words meaning "witch, wizard, sorcerer.".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mas.kɔt/
Audio (file)
Noun
mascotte f (plural mascottes)
- mascot (something used to symbolize a sports team or other group)
Descendants
- → Catalan: mascota
- → Czech: maskot
- → Dutch: mascotte
- → English: mascot
- → Italian: mascotte
- → Galician: mascota
- → Norwegian: maskot
- → Polish: maskotka
- → Portuguese: mascote
- → Spanish: mascota
- → Swedish: maskot
- → Turkish: maskot
Further reading
- “mascotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
mascotte on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Italian
Noun
mascotte f (invariable)
- mascot