different between navette vs bavette

English

Etymology

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??v?t/

Noun

navette (plural navettes)

1. A shuttle bus in France.
   • 2009, Kiratiana Freelon, Kiratiana's Travel Guide to Black Paris (page 45)

     To catch the Roissybus from Terminal 1, take the navette from door 22 (line 2) […]

2. A kind of grape that grows in summer.
   • 1831, George Don, A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants

     The summer Navette is less cultivated than the Coleseed, being less prolific, the seeds being much smaller.

Anagrams

• vanette

French

Etymology

Latin n?vis (“ship”) +? -ette (referring to the boat-like shape of a shuttle).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.v?t/

Noun

navette f (plural navettes)

1. shuttle (in weaving)
2. shuttle (land vehicle)
3. shuttle (space vehicle)

Derived terms

• faire la navette
• navette spatiale

Related terms

• navet
• naviguer
• navire

Verb

navette

1. first-person singular present indicative of navetter
2. third-person singular present indicative of navetter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of navetter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of navetter
5. second-person singular imperative of navetter

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• éventât

Italian

Noun

navette f

1. plural of navetta

Anagrams

• vattene
• ventate

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bæ?v?t/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French bavette (“slobber-inducing”).

Noun

bavette (plural bavettes)

1. (meat) A beef flank steak.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Italian bavette (“bavetta”) (dribble-inducing).

Noun

bavette (uncountable)

1. (pasta) A type of thick spaghetti.

Translations

French

Etymology

baver +? -ette.

Pronunciation

• (FR) IPA^(key): /ba.v?t/

Noun

bavette f (plural bavettes)

1. bib
2. bavette (beef flank steak)

Synonyms

• (bib): bavoir

Derived terms

• tailler une bavette

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

bavette f

1. plural of bavetta

West Flemish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bavette.

Noun

bavette f (plural bavettn, diminutive bavetje)

1. bib