trottoir

trottoir

See also: Trottoir

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French trottoir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɒtˈwɑː(ɹ)/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /tɹɒtˈwɔː(ɹ)/[1]

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Noun

trottoir (plural trottoirs)

1. A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.

   Synonyms: (American English) sidewalk, (British English) pavement, (Australia, New Zealand and India) footpath

   • 1869, William Maxwell Blackburn, Admiral Coligny, and the Rise of the Huguenots:

     Head-less bodies were trailed along the trottoirs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for trottoir in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Translations

sidewalk — see sidewalk

References

1. Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎, volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 10.571, page 304.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French trottoir.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

trottoir n (plural trottoirs, diminutive trottoirtje n)

1. sidewalk (US), pavement (UK), footpath (Australia)

   Synonym: stoep

Descendants

• → Indonesian: trotoar
• → Petjo: tattowaar

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French

Etymology

From trotter +‎ -oir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ.twaʁ/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

trottoir m (plural trottoirs)

1. sidewalk (US), pavement (UK), footpath (Australia)

Derived terms

• faire le trottoir
• fille de trottoir
• uritrottoir

Descendants

• → Alemannic German: Trottuar
• → Bulgarian: тротоар (trotoar)
• → Dutch: trottoir
  • → Indonesian: trotoar
  • → Petjo: tattowaar
• → Esperanto: trotuaro
• → Central Franconian: Trottwa, Trottewa
• → German: Trottoir
• → Georgian: ტროტუარი (ṭroṭuari)
• → Luxembourgish: Trottoir, Trëttoir
• → Polish: trotuar
• → Romanian: trotuar
• → Rhine Franconian: Trottwa, Trottewa
• → Russian: тротуа́р (trotuár)
• → Serbo-Croatian: trotoar, тротоар
• → Swedish: trottoar
• → Turkish: tretuvar
• → Yiddish: טראָטואַר‎ (trotuar)

Further reading

• “trottoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.