étoile
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French étoile. Doublet of estoile, stella, star, and aster.
Noun
étoile (plural étoiles)
- (ballet) The leading ballet dancer in a company
Anagrams
- teleio-
Bourguignon
Etymology
From Latin stella.
Noun
étoile f (plural étoiles)
- star
French
Etymology
From Middle French estoile, from Old French estoile, esteile, from Latin stēlla via the variant Vulgar Latin *stēla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. The expected French outcome for stēlla would be non-existent *ételle. Doublet of Estelle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.twal/
audio (file) - Homophone: étoiles
Noun
étoile f (plural étoiles)
- star
- (heraldry) mullet
- (farming) a white mark on the forehead of a horse or bull
- 1881, Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne, “étoile”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes, volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 814:
- صَبْحَة (ṣabḥa) (M), صُبْحَة (ṣubḥa) (Bc), étoile, marque blanche sur le front d’un cheval ou d’un taureau, pelote.
- … a white mark on the forehead of a horse or bull …
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Derived terms
- à la belle étoile
- amas d'étoiles
- anis étoile
- avoir des étoiles dans les yeux
- avoir des étoiles plein les yeux
- bonne étoile
- étoilé
- étoile à neutrons
- étoile de David
- étoile de mer
- étoile du matin
- étoile du soir
- étoile filante
- étoile invitée
- étoile jaune
- étoilement
- étoiler
- super-amas d'étoiles
Related terms
- stellaire
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: zetwal
- Mauritian Creole: zetwal
- Seychellois Creole: zetwal
- → English: étoile, etoile
- → Italian: étoile
Further reading
- “étoile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Alternative forms
- etoile
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French étoile (“star”), from Middle French estoile, from Old French estoile, esteile, from Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, a diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr, derived from the root *h₂eHs- (“to burn, to glow”). Doublet of stella.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eˈtwal/
- Rhymes: -al
Noun
étoile m or f by sense (invariable)
- (ballet) étoile (leading dancer)
Further reading
- étoile in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- etoile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana