different between ratatouille vs carnivore

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).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French carnivore, from Latin carnivorus. In the zoological sense, coined by William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French carnivore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??n?v??/
• IPA^(key): /?k???.n?.v??/

Noun

carnivore (plural carnivores)

1. An organism that feeds chiefly on animals; an animal that feeds on meat as the main part of its diet.

   Synonyms: meat-eater, zoophage

2. (zoology) A mammal belonging to the order Carnivora.

   Synonym: carnivoran

3. (informal) A person who is not a vegetarian.

   Synonyms: meat-eater, meatarian, (often humorous) meatatarian, (now rare) kreophagist, nonvegetarian

Usage notes

Not all meat-eaters (e.g. meat-eating birds and fish) belong to Carnivora, and not all Carnivora are meat-eaters (e.g. giant panda). To avoid the confusion, a new term carnivoran has been introduced to mean "belonging to Carnivora".

Synonyms

• zoophage
• meatarian, meatatarian (of people)

Derived terms

• hypercarnivore
• hypocarnivore
• macrocarnivore
• mesocarnivore
• microcarnivore
• obligate carnivore

Related terms

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin carnivorus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?.ni.v??/

Adjective

carnivore (plural carnivores)

1. carnivorous (predatory or flesh-eating)

Noun

carnivore m (plural carnivores)

1. carnivore

See also

• herbivore
• insectivore
• omnivore

Further reading

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

Italian

Adjective

carnivore

1. feminine plural of carnivoro

Noun

carnivore f

1. plural of carnivora

Anagrams

• converrai
• incorreva

Latin

Adjective

carnivore

1. vocative masculine singular of carnivorus