patrouille
See also: Patrouille and patrouillé
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French patrouille, from Old French patrouille.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌpaːˈtru.jə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: pa‧trouil‧le
Noun
patrouille f (plural patrouilles)
- patrol (going of the rounds)
- patrol (group of guards doing rounds)
Related terms
- patrouilleren
Descendants
- Afrikaans: patrollie
- → Indonesian: patroli
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Etymology 1
Old French patrouille, patouille (“a night-watch”, literally “a tramping about”), from patrouiller, patouiller, patoiller (“to paddle or pudder in water, dabble with the feet, begrime, besmear”), from patte, pate (“paw, foot of an animal”).
Noun
patrouille f (plural patrouilles)
- patrol
Descendants
- → Dutch: patrouille
- → English: patrol
- → Italian: pattuglia
- → Portuguese: patrulha
- → Spanish: patrulla
Further reading
- “patrouille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
patrouille
- inflection of patrouiller:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- polluerait