different between helmet vs casque

English

Alternative forms

• helmette (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English helmet, helmett, a borrowing from Old French helmet, heaumet, a diminutive of helme (Modern French heaume), equivalent to helm +? -et. The Old French is itself of Germanic origin (whence Old English helm). Used in English since the 15th century, it has largely displaced helm as the general word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?lm?t/, /?h?lm?t/

Noun

helmet (plural helmets)

1. A hard, protective head covering, typically part of armour.
2. That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.
   1. The upper part of a chemist's retort.
   2. The hood-shaped upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.
   3. A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.
   4. (heraldry) The feature above a shield on a coat of arms.
   5. The glans penis.

Synonyms

• brain bucket, hard hat

Derived terms

• combat helmet
• bicycle helmet
• construction helmet
• crash helmet

Related terms

• helm

Translations

Verb

helmet (third-person singular simple present helmets, present participle helmeting, simple past and past participle helmeted)

1. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a helmet.

Anagrams

• Lethem

Cebuano

Etymology

From English helmet, from Middle English helmet, helmett, a borrowing from Old French helmet, heaumet, a diminutive of helme.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hel?met

Noun

helmet

1. a helmet; a protective head covering, usually part of armour

Verb

helmet

1. to wear a helmet

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:helmet.

Finnish

Noun

helmet

1. Nominative plural form of helmi.
2. necklace made of pearls or beads

Declension

Synonyms

• (necklace): helminauha

Middle English

Alternative forms

• helmette, helmett, helmete

Etymology

From Old French helmet; equivalent to helm +? -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?lm?t/, /?h?lmit/

Noun

helmet

1. A helmet; an armoured piece of headgear.

Descendants

• English: helmet
• Scots: hoomet

References

• “helmet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.

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.