paletot
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
paletot (plural paletots)
- (historical) A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 24, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- [W]hen his services were not required at the House, in his usual favourite costume, namely, his light green frock or paletot …
- A women’s fitted jacket.
- 1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature, page 93:
- For morning fetes is worn with this dress a small white muslin paletot, without sleeves, split up the back, trimmed with two gauffred frills, edged with Valenciennes, and a narrow puffing, lined with satin ribbon.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 833:
- Kit caught sight of Dally in the Principessa’s borrowed gown and a dark silk paletot, her incendiary hair done up in an ostrich-plume aigrette dyed indigo
Translations edit
A loose outer jacket, overcoat
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French paltoke, paletoc, from Middle English paltok; first element related to Latin pallium (“cloak”), second element of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
paletot m (plural paletots)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Bulgarian: палто (palto), ⇒ балтон (balton)
- → Catalan: paltó
- → English: paletot
- → German: Paletot
- → Greek: παλτό (paltó)
- → Ottoman Turkish: پالطو (palto)
- > Turkish: palto (inherited)
- → Persian: پالتو
- → Polish: palto
- → Portuguese: paletó
- → Romanian: palton
- → Russian: пальто (palʹto) (see there for further descendants)
- → Spanish: paltó
- → Ukrainian: пальто (palʹto)
References edit
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Further reading edit
- “paletot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “paletot” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “paletot” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.