carré
See also: carre, Carre, and cârré
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French carré.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑˈreː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: car‧ré
Noun
carré n or m (plural carrés, diminutive carrétje n)
- square [6], military
- square shaped pastry
- (card games) four of a kind
French
Etymology
From Middle French quarré, from Old French quarré, from Latin quadrātus. Compare the borrowed doublet cadrat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ʁe/, /kɑ.ʁe/
audio (file) - Homophones: carrés, carrée, carrées
Adjective
carré (feminine carrée, masculine plural carrés, feminine plural carrées)
- square
- (mathematics) quadratic
- straightforward
Derived terms
- carré parfait
- mètre carré
- nombre carré
- pré carré
- racine carrée
- tête carrée
Noun
carré m (plural carrés)
- square
- patch (of land)
- (poker) four of a kind
- (Louisiana) frame, framework
Derived terms
- carré d'agneau
- c’est carré comme en Corée
- élever au carré
Related terms
- cadran
- carrer
- carreau
- carre
- carrière
- quadrature
Descendants
- → Russian: каре́ (karé) (see there for further descendants)
- Turkish: kare
Further reading
- “carré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- racer
Italian
Noun
carré m (invariable)
- loin (of meat)
- a type of hairstyle in which the hair is all cut to the same length
- yoke (of a shirt)