mascotte

English edit

Noun edit

mascotte (plural mascottes)

Archaic form of mascot. (bringer of good luck)

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

mascotte f or m (plural mascottes, diminutive mascotje n or mascottetje n)

mascot

French edit

mascotte

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Provençal mascoto, from masco (“witch”), from Old Occitan masca, from Medieval Latin masca, from a stem *maska, *mask- (“black”) believed to be of Pre-Indo-European origin giving rise to words meaning "witch, wizard, sorcerer.".

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /mas.kɔt/
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Noun edit

mascotte f (plural mascottes)

mascot (something used to symbolize a sports team or other group)

Descendants edit

→ Catalan: mascota
→ Czech: maskot
→ Dutch: mascotte
→ English: mascot
→ Galician: mascota
→ German: Maskottchen
→ Italian: mascotte
→ Norwegian: maskot
→ Polish: maskotka
→ Portuguese: mascote
→ Spanish: mascota
→ Swedish: maskot
→ Turkish: maskot

Further reading edit

“mascotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
mascotte on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Italian edit

Noun edit

mascotte f (invariable)

mascot

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