plaquette
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French plaquette (“small plaque”), allegedly coined in the 1860s.
Noun
plaquette (plural plaquettes)
- A small metal tablet decorated in bas-relief, usually with a design including figures.
- (physics) The smallest closed loop, enclosing the region between four lattice sites, in lattice gauge theory.
French
Etymology
plaque + -ette
Noun
plaquette f (plural plaquettes)
- packet (of butter); strip, blister pack (of pills)
- (hematology, cytology) platelet
Synonyms
- thrombocyte
Derived terms
- plaquette de frein
Descendants
- → Catalan: plaqueta
- → English: plaquette
- → Italian: plaquette
- → Portuguese: plaqueta
- → Spanish: plaqueta
- → Turkish: plaket
Further reading
- “plaquette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French plaquette (“small plaque”).
Noun
plaquette f (invariable)
- booklet, pamphlet
- Synonym: opuscolo
- a small commemorative plaque
- Synonyms: targhetta commemorativa, piccola targa commemorativa