caoutchouc
English edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French caoutchouc, from Spanish caucho, from Quechua kawchu.
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Noun edit
caoutchouc (countable and uncountable, plural caoutchoucs)
- latex; natural rubber
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 299:
- Many a passer-by thought Miss Arundel was listening to some subject of most touching interest: his Lordship was only detailing the benefit he derived one wet day from his caoutchouc cloak.
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natural rubber
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References edit
- “caoutchouc”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish cauchuc (an early variant of caucho), from Quechua kawchu. The final -c was formerly variably pronounced or silent, but is now always silent.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
caoutchouc m (plural caoutchoucs)
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Descendants edit
- → Bulgarian: ка́учук (káučuk)
- → Czech: kaučuk
- → German: Kautschuk
- → Esperanto: kaŭĉuko
- → Italian: caucciù
- → Romanian: cauciuc
- → Russian: каучу́к (kaučúk)
- → Turkish: kauçuk
- → Vietnamese: cao su
Further reading edit
- “caoutchouc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.