sondage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sondage (“survey, sounding”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒn.dɑːʒ/

Noun

sondage (plural sondages)

1. (archaeology) A small test excavation or test pit to examine the stratigraphy of a site; a deeper investigation of a small part of a larger trench.

Translations

test excavation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: koekaivaus
• Spanish: sondeo (es) m

Anagrams

• endogas

French

Etymology

From sonder +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ̃.daʒ/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

sondage m (plural sondages)

1. poll, survey
2. (medicine) probing, probe, catheterization
3. (technology) boring, drilling
4. (nautical, meteorology) sounding

Descendants

• → Catalan: sondatge
• → Czech: sondáž
• → English: sondage
• → Galician: sondaxe
• → Italian: sondaggio
• → Occitan: sondatge
• → Portuguese: sondagem
• → Romanian: sondaj
• → Spanish: sondaje
• → Turkish: sondaj

Further reading

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