trottoir

See also: Trottoir

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French trottoir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɒtˈwɑː(ɹ)/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /tɹɒtˈwɔː(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Noun

trottoir (plural trottoirs)

1. (archaic) A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.

   Synonyms: (American English) sidewalk, (British English) pavement, (Australia, New Zealand and India) footpath

   • 1869, William Maxwell Blackburn, Admiral Coligny, and the Rise of the Huguenots:

     Head-less bodies were trailed along the trottoirs.

Translations

sidewalk — see sidewalk

Further reading

• “trottoir”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French trottoir.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

trottoir n (plural trottoirs, diminutive trottoirtje n)

1. sidewalk (US), pavement (UK), footpath (Australia, India, New Zealand)

   Synonym: stoep

Descendants

• → Indonesian: trotoar
• → Petjo: tattowaar

French

Etymology

From trotter +‎ -oir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ.twaʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

trottoir m (plural trottoirs)

1. sidewalk, pavement, footpath (paved path located at the side of a road for the use of pedestrians)

Derived terms

• faire le trottoir
• fille de trottoir
• uritrottoir

 

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: twotwa
• → Alemannic German: Trottuar
• → Bulgarian: тротоар (trotoar)
• → Dutch: trottoir
  • → Indonesian: trotoar
  • → Petjo: tattowaar
• → Esperanto: trotuaro
• → Central Franconian: Trottwa, Trottewa
• → German: Trottoir
• → Georgian: ტროტუარი (ṭroṭuari)
• → Ladino: trotuar
• → Luxembourgish: Trottoir, Trëttoir
• → Polish: trotuar
• → Romanian: trotuar
• → Rhine Franconian: Trottwa, Trottewa
• → Russian: тротуа́р (trotuár)
• → Serbo-Croatian: trotòār, трото̀а̄р
• → Swedish: trottoar
• → Turkish: tretuvar
• → Yiddish: טראָטואַר (trotuar)

Further reading

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