détail

See also: detail, Detail, and de-tail

French

Etymology

From Middle French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.taj/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aj

Noun

détail m (plural détails)

1. detail (something small enough to escape casual notice, or a profusion of details)

Derived terms

• détailler
• détaillé
• en détail
• par le menu détail
• point de détail

Descendants

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: detay
• → Catalan: detall
• → Danish: detalje
• → Galician: detalle
• → Dutch: detail
• → German: Detail
• → Norwegian Bokmål: detalj
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: detalj
• → Portuguese: detalhe
• → Russian: деталь (detalʹ)
• → Spanish: detalle
• → Swedish: detalj
• → Turkish: detay

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• déliât
• dilate, dilaté
• ladite