different between cunette vs cuvette

English

Etymology

From French cunette (possibly also lacunette), from Italian cunetta (“cunette”), said to be from lacunetta, diminutive of lacuna (“ditch; lagoon; gap”), from Latin lac?na (“hole, pit; cavity, cleft, hollow, opening; gap, void”), from lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kju??n?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kju??n?t/, /ku?-/
• Hyphenation: cu?nette

Noun

cunette (plural cunettes)

1. (military) A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.

References

Italian

Noun

cunette m

1. plural of cunetta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cuvette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kju?v?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

cuvette (plural cuvettes)

1. a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table
2. (military) a cunette
3. (analytical chemistry) a small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer
4. an inner lid of a timepiece

Translations

French

Etymology

cuve +? -ette

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.v?t/

Noun

cuvette f (plural cuvettes)

1. basin, bowl; washbowl
2. basin, washbasin (in bathroom)
3. pan (of toilet)
4. (photography) dish
5. (geology) basin

Descendants

• ? English: cuvette
• ? German: Küvette
• ? Romanian: chiuvet?

Further reading

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