"crevette" meaning in French

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Noun

IPA: /kʁə.vɛt/ Audio: Fr-crevette.ogg Forms: crevettes [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Norman crevette, attested in 1532, from earlier cravette, crabette. These are diminutives of crabe (“crab”), but may be influenced by a word going back to Frankish *krebit (“crayfish”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz, possibly via Middle Dutch crevet (“crayfish”), from Old Dutch *krevit. Compare also écrevisse, Old Saxon krevit, Old High German krebiz. More at crayfish. The word crevette was associated with phonetically similar Norman kevrette (“young goat”), which led to the French equivalent chevrette being occasionally used in the sense of “shrimp”. This is, in all likelihood, a secondary confusion rather than the actual origin of crevette, as supposed in some of the literature. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|fr|nrf|crevette|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Norman crevette, {{bor+|fr|nrf|crevette}} Borrowed from Norman crevette, {{m|nrf|cravette}} cravette, {{m|nrf|crabette}} crabette, {{m|nrf|crabe||crab}} crabe (“crab”), {{der|fr|frk|*krabit|*krebit|t=crayfish}} Frankish *krebit (“crayfish”), {{der|fr|gem-pro|*krabitaz}} Proto-Germanic *krabitaz, {{der|fr|dum|crevet||crayfish}} Middle Dutch crevet (“crayfish”), {{der|fr|odt|*krevit}} Old Dutch *krevit, {{m|fr|écrevisse}} écrevisse, {{cog|osx|krevit}} Old Saxon krevit, {{cog|goh|krebiz}} Old High German krebiz, {{m|en|crayfish}} crayfish, {{cog|nrf|kevrette||young goat}} Norman kevrette (“young goat”), {{m|fr|chevrette}} chevrette Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} crevette f (plural crevettes)
  1. shrimp Tags: feminine Categories (lifeform): Crustaceans Synonyms: chevrette [Cajun-French, Louisiana] Derived forms: cocktail de crevettes, crevette grise, crevette nordique [feminine], crevette rose
    Sense id: en-crevette-fr-noun-Qqc8-fJY Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Norman crevette, attested in 1532, from earlier cravette, crabette. These are diminutives of crabe (“crab”), but may be influenced by a word going back to Frankish *krebit (“crayfish”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz, possibly via Middle Dutch crevet (“crayfish”), from Old Dutch *krevit. Compare also écrevisse, Old Saxon krevit, Old High German krebiz. More at crayfish.\nThe word crevette was associated with phonetically similar Norman kevrette (“young goat”), which led to the French equivalent chevrette being occasionally used in the sense of “shrimp”. This is, in all likelihood, a secondary confusion rather than the actual origin of crevette, as supposed in some of the literature.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crevettes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "crevette f (plural crevettes)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French 2-syllable words",
        "French countable nouns",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French feminine nouns",
        "French lemmas",
        "French nouns",
        "French terms borrowed from Norman",
        "French terms derived from Frankish",
        "French terms derived from Middle Dutch",
        "French terms derived from Norman",
        "French terms derived from Old Dutch",
        "French terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with audio links",
        "fr:Crustaceans"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "shrimp"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shrimp",
          "shrimp"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/kʁə.vɛt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-crevette.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/73/Fr-crevette.ogg/Fr-crevette.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Fr-crevette.ogg",
      "text": "audio"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cajun-French",
        "Louisiana"
      ],
      "word": "chevrette"
    }
  ],
  "word": "crevette"
}

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