"guillemet" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌɡiˈmeɪ/, /ˌɡi.(j)əˈmeɪ/, /ˈɡɪl.əˌmɛt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-guillemet.wav [Southern-England] Forms: guillemets [plural]
Etymology: From French guillemet, diminutive form of the name Guillaume (“William”), named after French typecutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–1598) who supposedly invented the marks. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|guillemet}} French guillemet, {{glossary|diminutive}} diminutive, {{m|fr|Guillaume||William}} Guillaume (“William”), {{named-after/list|typecutter||||}} typecutter, {{!}} |, {{lang|en|Guillaume Le Bé}} Guillaume Le Bé, {{named-after|en|Guillaume Le Bé|born=1525|died=1598|nat=French|nocap=1|occ=typecutter|wplink==}} named after French typecutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–1598) Head templates: {{en-noun}} guillemet (plural guillemets)
  1. Either of the punctuation marks « or », used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language, such as " (and formerly also “ and ”). Categories (topical): Dictation, Punctuation marks Synonyms: angle quote, chevron [typography, publishing, media], duckfoot quote, double angle quotation mark (english: Unicode name) Translations (either of the punctuation marks « or »): չակերտ (čʿakert) (Armenian), 書名號 (Chinese Mandarin), 书名号 (shūmínghào) (Chinese Mandarin), 《 and 》 [symbol] (Chinese Mandarin), 〈 and 〉 (Chinese Mandarin), kulmalainausmerkki (Finnish), guillemet [masculine] (French), Guillemet [masculine, neuter] (German), Möwchen [neuter] (German), εισαγωγικά (eisagogiká) [neuter, plural] (Greek), lúdláb (Hungarian), lúdlábidézőjel (Hungarian), csúcsos idézőjel (Hungarian), kúpos idézőjel (Hungarian), citazioni d'angolo [masculine, plural] (Italian), virgolette [feminine, plural] (Italian), virgolettato [masculine] (Italian), segno diacritico [masculine] (Italian), ギュメ (gyume) (Japanese), 《 and 》 [symbol] (Japanese), 〈 and 〉 (Japanese), sjevron [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sjevron [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), طرناق (tırnaq) (Ottoman Turkish), گیومه (giyume) (Persian), cudzysłów ostrokątny [masculine] (Polish), aspas angulares [feminine, plural] (Portuguese), ghilimele [feminine, plural] (Romanian), semnul citării [neuter] (Romanian), ёлочка (jóločka) [feminine] (Russian), comillas latinas [feminine, plural] (Spanish), comillas españolas [feminine, plural] (Spanish), comillas angulares [feminine, plural] (Spanish), comillas bajas [feminine, plural] (Spanish)

Noun [French]

IPA: /ɡij.mɛ/ Audio: Fr-guillemet.ogg Forms: guillemets [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛ Etymology: Diminutive form of the name Guillaume (“William”), named after French typecutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–1598), 1677. Etymology templates: {{m|fr|Guillaume||William}} Guillaume (“William”), {{named-after/list|typecutter||||}} typecutter, {{!}} |, {{lang|fr|Guillaume Le Bé}} Guillaume Le Bé, {{named-after|fr|Guillaume Le Bé|born=1525|died=1598|nat=French|nocap=1|occ=typecutter|wplink==}} named after French typecutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–1598) Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} guillemet m (plural guillemets)
  1. quotation mark Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-guillemet-fr-noun-M9PX7NOt Disambiguation of Punctuation marks: 97 3 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 99 1
  2. guillemet Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-guillemet-fr-noun-LNINwSve
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: entre guillemets

Inflected forms

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        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from French",
        "English terms derived from French",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "en:Dictation",
        "en:Punctuation marks"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 49",
          "text": "Guillemets, however, proved popular and remain the key method of indicating quotations in French, Arabic, Italian, Greek and many other languages.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Either of the punctuation marks « or », used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language, such as \" (and formerly also “ and ”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "«",
          "«"
        ],
        [
          "»",
          "»"
        ],
        [
          "language",
          "language"
        ],
        [
          "passage",
          "passage"
        ],
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ],
        [
          "quotation mark",
          "quotation mark"
        ],
        [
          "\"",
          "\""
        ],
        [
          "“",
          "“"
        ],
        [
          "”",
          "”"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɡiˈmeɪ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɡi.(j)əˈmeɪ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɪl.əˌmɛt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-guillemet.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-guillemet.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-guillemet.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-guillemet.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-guillemet.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "angle quote"
    },
    {
      "topics": [
        "typography",
        "publishing",
        "media"
      ],
      "word": "chevron"
    },
    {
      "word": "duckfoot quote"
    },
    {
      "english": "Unicode name",
      "word": "double angle quotation mark"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "čʿakert",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "word": "չակերտ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "word": "書名號"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shūmínghào",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "word": "书名号"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "symbol"
      ],
      "word": "《 and 》"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "word": "〈 and 〉"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "word": "kulmalainausmerkki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "guillemet"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Guillemet"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Möwchen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "eisagogiká",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "εισαγωγικά"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "word": "lúdláb"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "word": "lúdlábidézőjel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "word": "csúcsos idézőjel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "word": "kúpos idézőjel"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "citazioni d'angolo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "virgolette"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "virgolettato"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "segno diacritico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gyume",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "word": "ギュメ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "symbol"
      ],
      "word": "《 and 》"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "word": "〈 and 〉"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sjevron"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sjevron"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "tırnaq",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "word": "طرناق"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "giyume",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "word": "گیومه"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cudzysłów ostrokątny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "aspas angulares"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "ghilimele"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "semnul citării"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "jóločka",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ёлочка"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "comillas latinas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "comillas españolas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "comillas angulares"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "either of the punctuation marks « or »",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "comillas bajas"
    }
  ],
  "word": "guillemet"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "French 2-syllable words",
    "French countable nouns",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French eponyms",
    "French lemmas",
    "French masculine nouns",
    "French nouns",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "French terms with audio links",
    "French terms with homophones",
    "Rhymes:French/ɛ",
    "fr:Punctuation marks"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "entre guillemets"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "Guillaume",
        "3": "",
        "4": "William"
      },
      "expansion": "Guillaume (“William”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "typecutter",
        "2": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": ""
      },
      "expansion": "typecutter",
      "name": "named-after/list"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "|",
      "name": "!"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "Guillaume Le Bé"
      },
      "expansion": "Guillaume Le Bé",
      "name": "lang"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "Guillaume Le Bé",
        "born": "1525",
        "died": "1598",
        "nat": "French",
        "nocap": "1",
        "occ": "typecutter",
        "wplink": "="
      },
      "expansion": "named after French typecutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–1598)",
      "name": "named-after"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Diminutive form of the name Guillaume (“William”), named after French typecutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–1598), 1677.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "guillemets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "guillemet m (plural guillemets)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "quotation mark"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "quotation mark",
          "quotation mark"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "guillemet"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "guillemet",
          "guillemet#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡij.mɛ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "guillemets"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-guillemet.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ea/Fr-guillemet.ogg/Fr-guillemet.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Fr-guillemet.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "guillemet"
}

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