arrondissement
Appearance
See also: Arrondissement
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French arrondissement.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈɹɒn.dɪs.mənt/
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈɹɑn.dɪs.mənt/
- IPA(key): /ˌæɹ.ɒnˈdiːs.mɒ̃/, /æˌɹɒn.diːsˈmɒ̃/[1][2][3]
Noun
[edit]arrondissement (plural arrondissements)
- An administrative division in some French- or Dutch-speaking countries
- (Quebec) A borough, a submunicipal administrative division
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]an administrative division
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References
[edit]- ^ “arrondissement” in Lexico, Dictionary.com, LLC and Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “arrondissement”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- ^ “arrondissement”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From arrondir (“to round”) + -ment.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]arrondissement m (plural arrondissements)
- rounding
- arrondissement
- (Canada) arrondissement, a borough (submunicipal administrative division)
- (Louisiana) ward, police jury ward (subdivision of a civil parish)
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Descendants
- Haitian Creole: awondisman
- → Bulgarian: арондисман (arondisman)
- → English: arrondissement
- → German: Arrondissement
- → Romanian: arondisment
- → Russian: арондисма́н (arondismán)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: арондисман
- Latin script: arondisman
- → Turkish: arondisman
- → Ukrainian: арондісма́н (arondismán)
Further reading
[edit]- “arrondissement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]arrondissement m (plural arrondissements)
- (administrative division) arrondissement (an administrative division in some countries)
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French arrondissement.
Noun
[edit]arrondissement n
Declension
[edit]Declension of arrondissement
nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | arrondissement | arrondissements |
definite | arrondissementet | arrondissementets | |
plural | indefinite | arrondissement | arrondissements |
definite | arrondissementen | arrondissementens |
Further reading
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