different between eggplant vs ratatouille

English

Alternative forms

• egg-plant

Etymology

egg +? plant, originally applied only to the white-colored and egg-shaped variety.

Pronunciation

Noun

eggplant (countable and uncountable, plural eggplants)

1. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The plant Solanum melongena.
2. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The edible fruit of the Solanum melongena: an aubergine.
3. (Canada, US) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.

4. (US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
5. (snowboarding) A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall

Synonyms

• (the plant or its fruit): aubergine (UK), brinjal (India), baingan (India), brown jolly (Caribbean, dated)
• (the fruit): melongene (Caribbean)

Derived terms

• Eggplant mosaic virus

Translations

References

• eggplant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ratatouille, from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dish originally from Nice, and is also found in Provence), French form from diminutive prefix tat- + touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudicul? (“grind, mix”), from tudes (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *tud-, from *(s)tewd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æt.??tu?.i/, /?æt.??twi?/
• Rhymes: -u?i, -i?

Noun

ratatouille (countable and uncountable, plural ratatouilles)

1. A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant, with other ingredients.

Translations

Anagrams

• aural toilet

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from French ratatouille, from Occitan ratatolha. The French is analysable as a derivative of touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudiculare (“to grind, to mix”). Doublet of the popular borrowing ratjetoe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra?ta??tuj?/
• Hyphenation: ra?ta?touil?le

Noun

ratatouille f (plural ratatouilles)

1. ratatouille: a traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant, with other ingredients.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dish from Nice, in Provence), French form from diminutive prefix tat- + touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudicul? (“to grind, mix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.ta.tuj/

Noun

ratatouille f (plural ratatouilles)

1. A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant, with other ingredients.
2. (Louisiana) beating, whipping

Further reading

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