bateau
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See also: bâteau
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Noun[edit]
bateau (plural bateaux)
- A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French batel, Anglo-Norman bat, from Old English bāt (English boat) + suffix from Latin -ellus. It displaced the native word nef, which comes from Latin navis.
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Noun[edit]
bateau m (plural bateaux)
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Adjective[edit]
bateau (feminine bateau, masculine plural bateaux, feminine plural bateaux)
Further reading[edit]
- “bateau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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