different between beating vs battue

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?t??/
• Rhymes: -i?t??

Noun

beating (plural beatings)

1. The action by which someone or something is beaten.

   the beating of a drum

   secret beatings of prisoners

2. A heavy defeat or setback.
3. The pulsation of the heart.

Translations

Verb

beating

1. Present participle and gerund of beat.

Anagrams

• betaing

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French battue, feminine singular past participle of battre (“to beat; to defeat”), from Late Latin battere, Latin battuere, present active infinitive of batt?, a variant of battu? (“to beat; to fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew- (“to hit, strike”). Doublet of battuta.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??t(j)u?/, /bæ-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bæ?tu/
• Rhymes: -u? (RP)
• Hyphenation: bat?tue

Noun

battue (countable and uncountable, plural battues)

1. (uncountable, hunting, often attributively) A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes, etc. [from early 19th c.]
2. (countable, hunting) A hunt performed in this manner.

Related terms

• battu
• batture

Translations

References

French

Etymology

From Portuguese batuda or Italian battuta ("a beating"). See Latin battuo ("to beat").

Pronunciation

Noun

battue f (plural battues)

1. battue; the beating of bushes to force out the game
2. hunt, search

Descendants

• ? English: battue

Verb

battue

1. feminine singular of the past participle of battre

Further reading

• “battue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ébattu

Latin

Verb

battue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of battu?