pique-nique
See also: piquenique
French
Alternative forms
- piquenique (post-1990 spelling)
Etymology
pique + nique, from piquer (“to pick”, verb) + nique (“small thing”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pik.nik/
Noun
pique-nique m (plural pique-niques)
- picnic (a meal eaten outdoors)
Descendants
- → Catalan: pícnic
- → English: picnic, picknick
- → Spanish: pícnic
- → Japanese: ピクニック (pikunikku)
- → Punjabi: ਪਿਕਨਿਕ (piknik)
- → Galician: pícnic
- → German: Picknick
- → Portuguese: piquenique
- → Romanian: picnic
- → Russian: пикни́к (pikník)
- → Sicilian: picchinicchi
- → Spanish: pícnic
- → Turkish: piknik
Further reading
- “pique-nique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.