creole

See also créole, and Creole

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

An adaptation of the Castilian Spanish criollo (“homey, local yokel”), from Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria (“person raised in one’s house, servant”), from Portuguese criar (“to rear, to bring up”), from Latin creo (“to create”), which came into English via French between 1595 and 1605.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkriəʊl/, X-SAMPA: /"kri@Ul/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -iəʊl
• (US) enPR: krēʹōl, IPA: /ˈkrioʊl/, X-SAMPA: /"krioUl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ioʊl

Noun

creole (plural creoles)

1. (linguistics) A dialect formed from two languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.

Derived terms

• creolisation, creolization
• creolise, creolize
• creoloid
• post-creole continuum

Translations

dialect formed from two languages

• Antillean Creole: kréyol
• Catalan: crioll (ca) m
• Dutch: creools (nl) n
• Esperanto: kreolo (eo)
• Finnish: kreoli (fi)
• French: créole (fr) m
• German: Kreolsprache (de) f
• Haitian Creole: kreyòl

• Italian: creolo (it)
• Krio: krio
• Macedonian: креол (mk) (kréol) m
• Pijin: pijin
• Russian: креол (ru) (kreól) m, креолизованный язык (ru) (kreolizóvannyj jazyk) m
• Spanish: criollo (es) m
• Swedish: kreol (sv) c
• Tok Pisin: pisin (tpi)

External links

• Haitian Creole – English Dictionary: from Webster’s Dictionary – the Rosetta Edition.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkrɛːole/

• Audio (IT)

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• Rhymes: -ɛːole

Adjective

creole f

1. Feminine plural form of creolo

Anagrams

• celerò
• ercole, Ercole