plaquette
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French plaquette (“small plaque”), allegedly coined in the 1860s.
Noun edit
plaquette (plural plaquettes)
- A small metal tablet decorated in bas-relief, usually with a design including figures.
- (physics) The smallest closed loop, enclosing the region between four lattice sites, in lattice gauge theory.
French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
plaquette f (plural plaquettes)
- packet (of butter); strip, blister pack (of pills)
- (hematology, cytology) platelet
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: plaqueta
- → English: plaquette
- → Italian: plaquette
- → Portuguese: plaqueta
- → Spanish: plaqueta
- → Turkish: plaket
Further reading edit
- “plaquette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French plaquette (“small plaque”).
Noun edit
plaquette f (invariable)
- booklet, pamphlet
- Synonym: opuscolo
- a small commemorative plaque
- Synonyms: targhetta commemorativa, piccola targa commemorativa