different between culotte vs calotte

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French culotte.

Noun

culotte (plural culottes)

1. singular of culottes

French

Etymology

Feminine derivative of culot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.l?t/

Noun

culotte f (plural culottes)

1. (a pair of) panties, knickers
2. trousers, pants; shorts
3. (historical) breeches

Derived terms

• petite culotte
• porter la culotte
• sans-culotte

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French calotte.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

calotte (plural calottes)

1. A skullcap worn by Roman Catholic priests.

   Synonym: zucchetto

2. (archaic) The vertical central area of the crown of a bird's head.
3. (architecture) A round cavity or depression, in the form of a cup or cap, lathed and plastered; used to diminish the rise or elevation of a moderate chapel, alcove, etc. which would otherwise be too high for other pieces of the apartment.
4. (anatomy) The upper (superior) or lower (inferior) half of the globe of the eye.

Further reading

• Calotte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Coletta, cattelo

French

Etymology

From Old Occitan calotta, calota, either an extension of French cale (“a kind of bonnet”), or from Arabic ?????????? (kall?ta, “a headdress consisting of a small cap with a giant turban, or only the small cap”). See also French calot and Latin calautica, kinds of caps.

Pronunciation

Noun

calotte f (plural calottes)

1. zucchetto (skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy)
2. kippah (Jewish cap)
3. (Belgium) calotte (religious skullcap)
4. (Belgium, college slang) cap worn by students of Belgian Catholic universities after the corona ceremony (a sort of hazing)

   Antonym: penne

5. (by extension) cap (of ice)

Derived terms

• calotté
• calotte glaciaire
• calottin
• décalotter

Descendants

• ? English: calotte
• ? German: Kalotte
• ? Italian: calotta
• ? Portuguese: calota
• ? Spanish: galota, galocha

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

calotte f

1. plural of calotta

Anagrams

• caletto, calettò, coletta