"arête" meaning in French

See arête in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /a.ʁɛt/, [a.ˈʁɛtʰ] [Eastern, Quebec], [a.ˈʁɛtʰ] [Western-Quebec], [a.ˈʁɛɪ̯tʰ] [Western-Quebec] Audio: Fr-arête.ogg , LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-arête.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-arête.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-arête.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-arête.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-arête.wav Forms: arêtes [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old French areste, from Latin arista. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|areste|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French areste, {{inh+|fr|fro|areste}} Inherited from Old French areste, {{inh|fr|la|arista}} Latin arista Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} arête f (plural arêtes)
  1. (zoology) bone (of a fish), fishbone Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-arête-fr-noun-fmSO-DZK Categories (other): Zoology Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
  2. edge (of an object); ridge, crest (of mountain) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-arête-fr-noun-dLM4Th7C
  3. (architecture) groin (of vault) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-arête-fr-noun-Z5oiFNBa Categories (other): Architecture Topics: architecture
  4. bridge of nose Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-arête-fr-noun-LrWRSVwZ
  5. (botany) beard (of rye, barley etc.); awn Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-arête-fr-noun-d4nkrrZh Categories (other): Botany, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 25 8 11 2 37 16 Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
  6. (graph theory) edge Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-arête-fr-noun-ocsQD1fp Categories (other): Graph theory Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (05c257f and 9d9a410). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.