"marmite" meaning in French

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Noun

IPA: /maʁ.mit/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-0x010C-marmite.wav Forms: marmites [plural]
Etymology: In Middle French (attested 1388) used in the sense of an earthen or metal cooking-pot; later (17th century) also of bombs or grenades from their resemblance to iron cooking-pots. Earlier, the noun Old French marmite meant "hypocrite" (attested 1223); the semantic development is explained as the cooking-pot being covered and not revealing its interior (thus being "hypocritical", as compared to e.g. a cooking-pan or a plate). The etymology of marmite "hypocrite" is explained as a compound of marmotter (“to mutter”) (from an onomatopoeic base mar- "murmur") and mite (“cat”) (an obsolete word for "cat", probably also onomatopoeic, i.e. imitative of meowing, extant only in the compound chattemite), and thus describing a person being evasive by "murmuring" or "meowing" instead of speaking plainly. Etymology templates: {{inh|fr|fro|marmite||}} Old French marmite, {{m|fro|marmotter||to mutter}} marmotter (“to mutter”), {{onomatopoeic|fr|title=onomatopoeic}} onomatopoeic, {{m|fro|mite||cat}} mite (“cat”), {{m|fr|chattemite}} chattemite Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} marmite f (plural marmites)
  1. pot, cooking pot, marmite Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Cookware and bakeware
    Sense id: en-marmite-fr-noun-DiMXqKd6 Disambiguation of Cookware and bakeware: 49 43 1 7 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French onomatopoeias Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 48 43 1 8 Disambiguation of French onomatopoeias: 47 42 2 9
  2. (metonymically) meal prepared in a cooking pot Tags: feminine, metonymically Categories (topical): Cookware and bakeware
    Sense id: en-marmite-fr-noun-jCkIPSKh Disambiguation of Cookware and bakeware: 49 43 1 7 Categories (other): French metonyms, French entries with incorrect language header, French onomatopoeias Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 48 43 1 8 Disambiguation of French onomatopoeias: 47 42 2 9
  3. (military, slang) (heavy) shell Tags: feminine, slang Categories (topical): Military
    Sense id: en-marmite-fr-noun-pchrmOvN Topics: government, military, politics, war
  4. (dated, slang) prostitute, especially one past the first youth, the "flesh pot" of the souteneur Tags: dated, feminine, slang
    Sense id: en-marmite-fr-noun-aa0gd~Uy
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: faire bouillir la marmite

Inflected forms

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