bateau
See also: bâteau
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bateau (plural bateaux)
- A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.
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From Old French batel, Anglo-Norman bat, from Old English bāt (English boat) + suffix from Latin -ellus. It displaced the native word nef, which comes from Latin navis.
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bateau m (plural bateaux)
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- “bateau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.