portefeuille
See also: Portefeuille
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
portefeuille (plural portefeuilles)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From French portefeuille. Doublet with portfolio.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
portefeuille m (plural portefeuilles, diminutive portefeuilletje n)
- wallet
- Synonym: portemonnee
- portfolio (post, set of responsibilities)
Related terms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From porte (“carry”, second person singular imperative) + feuille (“sheet, paper”). Cognate with Italian portafoglio (whence French portfolio).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
portefeuille m (plural portefeuilles)
Synonyms edit
- (wallet): (slang, France) larfeuille
Descendants edit
- → Danish: portefølje
- → Dutch: portefeuille
- → German: Portefeuille
- → Limburgish: portefui
- → Norwegian Bokmål: portefølje
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: portefølje
- → Polish: portfel
- → Portuguese: porta-fólio
- → Russian: портфе́ль (portfélʹ)
- → Romanian: portofel
- → Swedish: portfölj
- → Turkish: portföy
- → Ukrainian: портфе́ль (portfélʹ)
- → West Frisian: portefúlje
Further reading edit
- “portefeuille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.