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berth
English
Alternative forms
- birth, byrth (obsolete)
Etymology
Origin obscure. Possibly from Middle English *berth (“bearing, carriage”), equivalent to bear +? -th. This would make it a doublet of birth.
Alternatively, from an alteration of Middle English beard, bærde (“bearing, conduct”), itself of obscure formation. Compare Old English ?eb?ru (“bearing, conduct, behaviour”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b???/
- (US) enPR: bûrth, IPA(key): /b??/
- Homophone: birth
- Rhymes: -??(?)?
Noun
berth (plural berths)
- A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc).
- Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.)
- A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
- (nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
- A job or position, especially on a ship.
- (sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
- (sports) position on the field of play
Translations
Verb
berth (third-person singular simple present berths, present participle berthing, simple past and past participle berthed)
- (transitive) to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth
- (transitive) to assign a berth (bunk or position) to
Translations
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?r?/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Brythonic *ber?, from Proto-Celtic *berxtos.
Adjective
berth (feminine singular berth, plural berthion, equative berthed, comparative berthach, superlative berthaf)
- (obsolete) fair, fine, beautiful
Derived terms
- anferth (“colossal, gargantuan”)
- prydferth (“beautiful, handsome”)
Mutation
Etymology 2
Noun
berth
- Soft mutation of perth (“hedge”).
Mutation
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billet
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /?b?l?t/
- Rhymes: -?l?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English bylet, from Anglo-Norman billette (“list, schedule”), from bille +? -ette, from Latin bulla (“document”).
Noun
billet (plural billets)
- A short informal letter.
- A written order to quarter soldiers.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle French billette (“schedule”), from bullette, diminutive form of bulle (“document”), from Medieval Latin bulla, hence cognate with etymology 1 above.
Noun
billet (plural billets)
- A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
- 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 9 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
- 17 June 1940: Prime Minister Pétain requests armistice. Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ billet. Foucault steals firewood for school from collaborationist militia. Foucault does well at school, but messes up his summer exams in 1940.
- 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 9 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
- An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
- (figuratively) Berth; position.
- 1897, Pall Mall Magazine
- His shafts of satire fly straight to their billet, and there they rankle.
- 1897, Pall Mall Magazine
Verb
billet (third-person singular simple present billets, present participle billeting or billetting, simple past and past participle billeted or billetted)
- (transitive, of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
- Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.
- (intransitive, of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
- (transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English billet, bylet, belet, billette, from Old French billette, from bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“tree”)).
Noun
billet (plural billets)
- (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
- A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
- A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
- (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
- (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
- (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
- A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
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Translations
Etymology 4
Noun
billet (plural billets)
- Alternative form of billard (“coalfish”)
Anagrams
- LIBlet, Litbel
Danish
Etymology
From French billet.
Noun
billet c (singular definite billetten, plural indefinite billetter)
- ticket (admission to entertainment, pass for transportation)
Inflection
Further reading
- “billet” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Old French billette, from Latin bulla. See French boulette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi.j?/
Noun
billet m (plural billets)
- ticket
- note, a brief message
- (short for billet de banque) banknote
Derived terms
- distributeur de billets
Related terms
- billet de banque (bank note)
- billet-doux
- billette
- billetterie
- billetiste
Descendants
Further reading
- “billet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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