oubliette

See also: oubliëtte

English

WOTD – 18 April 2012

Etymology

Borrowed from French oubliette, from oublier (“to forget”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /uːbliˈɛt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

oubliette (plural oubliettes)

1. A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top. [from 18th c.]

   Hypernym: dungeon

Translations

dungeon

• Czech: hladomorna (cs) f
• Dutch: vergetelput m, vergeetput m, oubliëtte (nl) f
• Esperanto: ublieto
• French: oubliette (fr) f
• Ido: karcer-kamero
• Italian: oubliette (it) f
• Japanese: 地下牢 (ちかろう, chikarō)
• Russian: ублие́т m (ublijét)
• Swedish: oubliette (sv) c

See also

• hole
• memory hole

 

Further reading

• Dungeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From oublier (“to forget”) +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u.bli.jɛt/

• Audio (Canada):

  (file)

Noun

oubliette f (plural oubliettes)

1. oubliette [from 14th c.]

Derived terms

• jeter aux oubliettes
• oubliettes de l’histoire

Descendants

• → Dutch: oubliëtte
• → English: oubliette
• → Italian: oubliette

Further reading

• “oubliette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

oubliette f (plural oublietti)

1. oubliette