abattoir
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French abattoir, from abattre (“to slaughter”) (cognate to abate) + -oir (“-ory”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæb.əˌtwɑː(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæb.əˌtwɑɹ/, /ˈæb.əˌtwɑ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Hyphenation: ab‧at‧toir
NounEdit
abattoir (plural abattoirs)
- A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19th century.][1]
- Once the cows reach maturity, they're sent to the abattoir.
- A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.[2]
- The army's raid on the enemy turned into a major abattoir.
TranslationsEdit
public slaughterhouse
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a place likened to be a slaughterhouse
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abattoir”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.
- ^ American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French abattoir.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
abattoir n (plural abattoirs, diminutive abattoirtje n)
SynonymsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Papiamentu: abatuar
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
abattoir m (plural abattoirs)
DescendantsEdit
- → Dutch: abattoir
- → Papiamentu: abatuar
- → English: abattoir
- → Moore: batoaare
- → Norwegian Bokmål: abattoir
Further readingEdit
- “abattoir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French abattoir (“abattoir, slaughterhouse”), from both abattre (“to butcher; slaughter for meat”), from Middle French abattre, from Old French abatre (“to knock over, destroy, slaughter”), from Vulgar Latin *abbatere, present active infinitive of *abbatō, *abbatuō (“I beat down, cast down”), from Latin battuō (“I beat, hit, pound, beat up”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to stab, dig”) + and from -oir, from Latin -orium or -oria.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
abattoir n (definite singular abattoiret, indefinite plural abattoirer, definite plural abattoira or abattoirene)
- (concerning France) an abattoir (a public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.)
- 1836 October 17, Den Constitutionelle, page 2:
- man betænker, hvilke uhyre mængde kvæg der mellem aar og dag bliver slagtet i Parises abattoirs
- one considers the enormous amount of cattle slaughtered in Paris' abattoirs between year and day
- 1928 September 13, A-magasinet, page 2:
- abbatoirene [sic] i Rue de Flanders
- the abattoirs [sic] in Rue de Flanders
ReferencesEdit
- “abattoir” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).