châtelet
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French chastelet (“a small castle”). By surface analysis, château + -et (diminutive suffix). Compare Italian castelletto (“a small castle; a line of credit”) and English castlet (“a small castle”), with the same derivation.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchâtelet m (plural châtelets)
Further reading
edit- “châtelet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.