different between croquette vs croqueta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French croquette, from croquer (“to crunch”) + -ette (suffix indicating diminution).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kr?-k?t' IPA^(key): /k?o??k?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

croquette (plural croquettes)

1. (cooking) A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs.

Translations

See also

• croquet

Further reading

• croquette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• coquetter

French

Etymology

From croquer (“to crunch”) +? -ette, 18th c.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.k?t/

Noun

croquette f (plural croquettes)

1. (cooking) croquette (minced, cooked food which is then deep-fried)
2. (by extension) kibble (grain for use as animal feed)
3. (informal, slightly offensive) a beanpole (a skinny and unmuscular person)

Descendants

• ? Catalan: croqueta
• ? Dutch: kroket
• ? English: croquette
• ? German: Krokette
• ? Portuguese: croquete
• ? Spanish: croqueta

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish croqueta. Doublet of croquette.

Noun

croqueta (plural croquetas)

1. A Cuban croquette, usually made of ham, beef, chicken, or fish, and generally based on flour rather than potatoes.

Asturian

Noun

croqueta f (plural croquetes)

1. croquette (food)

Catalan

Etymology

From French croquette.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /k?o?k?.t?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /k?u?k?.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /k?o?ke.ta/

Noun

croqueta f (plural croquetes)

1. croquette

Further reading

• “croqueta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “croqueta” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• cocreta (nonstandard)

Etymology

From French croquette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?o?keta/, [k?o?ke.t?a]

Noun

croqueta f (plural croquetas)

1. croquette

Further reading

• “croqueta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.