rentrée

French

FWOTD – 1 September 2017

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/

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• Homophones: rentrer, rentré, rentrés, rentrées, rentrez, rentrai

Noun

rentrée f (plural rentrées)

1. return (the act of returning)
2. (education, administration) the return to school or work after a vacation (usually the summer break); start of the school year

   Dans 5 jours, c’est la rentrée. ― It's back to school in 5 days.

   • 2015, William Edmiston, Annie Dumenil, La France contemporaine, Cengage Learning, →ISBN:

     Pour les jeunes, c’est la rentrée scolaire: beaucoup de parents accompagnent leurs jeunes enfants à l’école le jour de la rentrée des classes, et les patrons sont encouragés à leur accorder cette possibilité.

     For children, it is the start of the new school year: many parents accompany their young children to school on the first day back, and bosses are encouraged to allow them to do so.

Coordinate terms

• (start of the school year): relâche

Derived terms

• rentrée des classes
• rentrée scolaire
• rentrée littéraire
• rentrée politique

Descendants

• Portuguese: rentrée

Participle

rentrée f sg

1. feminine singular of rentré

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• enterre, enterré

Italian

Noun

rentrée f (invariable)

1. return (typically of an artist who has been absent for some time)

Anagrams

• terrene

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French rentrée.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁɐ̃ˈtɾe/ [hɐ̃ˈtɾe]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁɐ̃ˈtɾe/ [hɐ̃ˈtɾe]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁɐ̃ˈtɾe/ [χɐ̃ˈtɾe]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɐ̃ˈtɾe/

Noun

rentrée f (plural rentrées)

1. (education, administration) the return to school or work after a recess (usually the summer break)