patrouille
See also: Patrouille and patrouillé
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French patrouille, from Old French patrouille.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
patrouille f (plural patrouilles)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
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Etymology 1 edit
From Old French patrouille, patouille (“a night-watch”, literally “a tramping about”), from patrouiller, patouiller, patoiller (“to paddle or pudder in water, dabble with the feet, begrime, besmear”), from patte, pate (“paw, foot of an animal”).
Noun edit
patrouille f (plural patrouilles)
Descendants edit
- → Dutch: patrouille
- → English: patrol
- → Italian: pattuglia
- → Portuguese: patrulha
- → Spanish: patrulla
- → Swedish: patrull
Further reading edit
- “patrouille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
patrouille
- inflection of patrouiller: