"martinet" meaning in French

See martinet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /maʁ.ti.nɛ/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-martinet.wav [France, Toulouse], LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-martinet.wav [France] (note: Somain) Forms: martinets [plural]
Etymology: From marteau (“hammer”). Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} martinet m (plural martinets)
  1. multi-tail whip, comprising leather or whipcord thongs fixed on a handle, to dust off or to administer a beating Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-martinet-fr-noun-sVVylIfW Categories (other): Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with etymon, French entries referencing missing etymons, French entries with etymon, French entries with incorrect language header, French terms suffixed with -et, Swallows Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 20 9 8 17 2 22 7 12 2 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 21 9 9 16 2 23 6 13 2 Disambiguation of French entries referencing missing etymons: 55 15 26 4 Disambiguation of French entries with etymon: 56 14 26 4 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 60 10 27 2 Disambiguation of French terms suffixed with -et: 36 37 20 8 Disambiguation of Swallows: 44 17 34 5
  2. mechanical hammer on a motor-driven cogwheel, as used to beat metal Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-martinet-fr-noun-qSe3xYV1 Categories (other): French terms suffixed with -et Disambiguation of French terms suffixed with -et: 36 37 20 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1 Categories (other): Apodiforms Disambiguation of Apodiforms: 0 0 0 0

Noun

IPA: /maʁ.ti.nɛ/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-martinet.wav [France, Toulouse], LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-martinet.wav [France] (note: Somain) Forms: martinets [plural]
Etymology: From Martin + -et. Etymology templates: {{ety|fr|:af|Martin|-et}} [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "is_uncertain" : true, "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "verbal adjectives", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tós", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-tos", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Late Latin", "term" : "-ittus", "lang" : "la-lat" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "-et", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Middle French", "term" : "-et", "lang" : "frm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "-et", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fr" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "martinet", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fr" }" data-lang="fr" data-title="martinet">, {{af|fr|Martin|-et}} Martin + -et Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} martinet m (plural martinets)
  1. martin (any of the swallow-like birds, black with a white throat, of family Hirundinidae) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-martinet-fr-noun-g5byvrqz Categories (other): Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with etymon, French terms suffixed with -et Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 20 9 8 17 2 22 7 12 2 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 21 9 9 16 2 23 6 13 2 Disambiguation of French terms suffixed with -et: 36 37 20 8
  2. swift (bird) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-martinet-fr-noun-zLUnaRI8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2 Categories (other): Apodiforms Disambiguation of Apodiforms: 0 0 0 0

Inflected forms

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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.