palmier
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French palmier, ellipsis of feuille de palmier (“palm tree leaf”), the original name of this pastry.
Noun edit
palmier (plural palmiers)
- A type of puff pastry biscuit made in the shape of a palm leaf and rolled in sugar.
- Synonym: elephant ear
- 2007 January 30, Lily Koppel, “In a Bakery Window, Shades of Miss Havisham”, in New York Times[1]:
- Glass cases are filled with a pastel field of pink sweet buns, glossy guava-oozing pastries and their vanilla custard cousins, crispy, heart-shaped orejas (elephant ears, or, at French bakeries, palmiers), and conchas (shells).
Translations edit
puff pastry
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
palmier
- comparative form of palmy: more palmy
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French palmier. By surface analysis, palme + -ier.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /pal.mje/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -je
- Homophone: palmiers
- Hyphenation: pal‧mier
Noun edit
palmier m (plural palmiers)
- palm, palm tree
- Hypernyms: arbre, monocotylédone
- Hyponyms: aréquier, dattier, palmier à huile, palmier des Canaries
- (baking) palmier (biscuit)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Romanian: palmier
Further reading edit
- “palmier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “palmier” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “palmier” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
Paronyms edit
Anagrams edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French palmier (“palm tree”).
Noun edit
palmier m (plural palmieri)
Declension edit
Declension of palmier
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) palmier | palmierul | (niște) palmieri | palmierii |
genitive/dative | (unui) palmier | palmierului | (unor) palmieri | palmierilor |
vocative | palmierule | palmierilor |
References edit
- palmier in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)