different between casque vs salet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French casque.

Noun

casque (plural casques)

1. A helmet.
   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, I:

     He beheld his child dashed to pieces, and almost buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any casque ever made for human being, and shaded with a proportionable quantity of black feathers.

2. A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary.

Translations

Anagrams

• sacque

French

Etymology

From Spanish casco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kask/
• Homophone: casques

Noun

casque m (plural casques)

1. helmet
2. hard hat
3. headphones
4. (zoology) casque

Derived terms

• casque bleu

Verb

casque

1. first-person singular present indicative of casquer
2. third-person singular present indicative of casquer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of casquer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of casquer
5. second-person singular imperative of casquer

Further reading

• “casque” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• casque on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Anagrams

• caques

Spanish

Verb

casque

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cascar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cascar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of cascar.

English

Noun

salet (plural salets)

1. A helmet, also sometimes called a salade or celate.
   • 1786: Father Daniel defines a Salet to be a sort of light casque, without a crest, sometimes having a visor, and sometimes without one. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11.

Anagrams

• Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, Tesla, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas, tesla

Dutch

Alternative forms

• zalet (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French salette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa??l?t/
• Hyphenation: sa?let
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

salet n (plural saletten, diminutive saletje n)

1. A salon, a small room where one receives guests.
2. (obsolete) An upper-class party or similar formal meeting where one socialises; often of a type traditionally organised and attended by ladies, such as a tea party.

Derived terms

• saletjonker

Related terms

• salon
• zaal

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

salet n

1. definite singular of sal

Anagrams

• laset, laste, least, lesta, letas, létas, salte, selta, stela, tasle, telas, tesla