calotte
English
cardinal wearing a calotte (1)
Etymology
Borrowed from French calotte.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈlɑt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəˈlɒt/
- Rhymes: -ɒt
Noun
calotte (plural calottes)
- A skullcap worn by Roman Catholic priests.
- Synonym: zucchetto
- (archaic) The vertical central area of the crown of a bird's head.
- (architecture) A round cavity or depression, in the form of a cup or cap, lathed and plastered; used to diminish the rise or elevation of a moderate chapel, alcove, etc. which would otherwise be too high for other pieces of the apartment.
- (anatomy) The upper (superior) or lower (inferior) half of the globe of the eye.
Derived terms
- calotte model
Further reading
Calotte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Coletta, cattelo
French
Etymology
From Old Occitan calotta, calota, either an extension of French cale (“a kind of bonnet”), or from Arabic كَلُّوتَة (kallūta, “a headdress consisting of a small cap with a giant turban, or only the small cap”). See also French calot and Latin calautica, kinds of caps.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.lɔt/
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Noun
calotte f (plural calottes)
- zucchetto (skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy)
- kippah (Jewish cap)
- (Belgium) calotte (religious skullcap)
- (Belgium, university slang) cap worn by students of Belgian Catholic universities after the corona ceremony (a sort of hazing)
- Antonym: penne
- (colloquial) tap, knock on the head, buffet, smack, cuff
- (by extension) cap (of ice)
Derived terms
- calotté
- calotte glaciaire
- calottin
- décalotter
- décalottage
- recalotter
- recalottage
Descendants
Descendants
- → English: calotte
- → German: Kalotte
- → Italian: calotta
- → Portuguese: calota, calote
- → Spanish: galota, galocha
Further reading
- “calotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
calotte f
- plural of calotta
Anagrams
- caletto, calettò, coletta, tolteca