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abattoir
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French abattoir, from abattre (“to slaughter”) (cognate to abate) + -oir (“-ory”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æb.??tw??(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?æb.??tw??/, /?æb.??tw?/
- Hyphenation: ab?at?toir
Noun
abattoir (plural abattoirs)
- A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19th century.]
- A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.
Translations
See also
- knacker's yard
References
Anagrams
- Baraitot
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French abattoir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?.ba??t?a?r/
- Hyphenation: abat?toir
- Rhymes: -a?r
Noun
abattoir n (plural abattoirs, diminutive abattoirtje n)
- abattoir, slaughterhouse
Synonyms
- slachthuis, slachterij
French
Etymology
abattre +? -oir
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ba.twa?/
Noun
abattoir m (plural abattoirs)
- slaughterhouse; abattoir
Descendants
- ? Dutch: abattoir
- ? English: abattoir
- ? Moore: batoaare
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: abattoir
Descendants
- Norwegian Bokmål: abattoir
Further reading
- “abattoir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French abattoir (“abattoir, slaughterhouse”), from both abattre (“to butcher; slaughter for meat”), from Middle French abattre, from Old French abatre (“to knock over, destroy, slaughter”), from Vulgar Latin *abbatere, present active infinitive of *abbat?, *abbatu? (“I beat down, cast down”), from Latin battu? (“I beat, hit, pound, beat up”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ed?- (“to stab, dig”) + and from -oir, from Latin -orium or -oria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abat????r/
- Rhymes: -??r
- Hyphenation: a?batt?oi?ar
Noun
abattoir n (definite singular abattoiret, indefinite plural abattoirer, definite plural abattoira or abattoirene)
- (concerning France) an abattoir (a public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.)
- Synonyms: slaktehus, slakteri
References
- “abattoir” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
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slaughter
English
Alternative forms
- slaughtre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English slaughter, from Old Norse *slahtr, later slátr, from Proto-Germanic *slahtr?. Equivalent to slay +? -ter (as in laughter). Eventually derived from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). Related with Dutch slachten, German schlachten (both “to slaughter”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?sl??t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?sl?t?/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /?sl?t?/
- Hyphenation: slaugh?ter
- Rhymes: -??t?(?)
- Homophone: slotter (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Noun
slaughter (countable and uncountable, plural slaughters)
- (uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food.
- A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, 1773, The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Edinburgh, page 416,
- For ?in, on war and mutual ?laughter bent.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, 1773, The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Edinburgh, page 416,
- A rout or decisive defeat.
- A group of iguanas.
- Synonym: mess
Hyponyms
- (a massacre): manslaughter
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
slaughter (third-person singular simple present slaughters, present participle slaughtering, simple past and past participle slaughtered)
- (transitive) To butcher animals, generally for food
- (transitive, intransitive) To massacre people in large numbers
- (transitive) To kill in a particularly brutal manner
Translations
Anagrams
- Laughters, laughster, laughters, laughtres, lethargus, slaughtre
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