carré

Borrowed from French carré.

• IPA^(key): /kɑˈreː/

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• Hyphenation: car‧ré

carré n or m (plural carrés, diminutive carreetje n)

1. square [6], military
2. square shaped pastry
3. (card games) four of a kind

Inherited from Middle French quarré, from Old French quarré, from Latin quadrātus. Compare the borrowed doublet cadrat.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁe/ ~ /kɑ.ʁe/

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• Homophones: carrés, carrée, carrées

carré (feminine carrée, masculine plural carrés, feminine plural carrées)

1. square
2. (mathematics) quadratic
3. straightforward

carré m (plural carrés)

1. square
2. patch (of land)
3. (poker) four of a kind
4. (Louisiana) frame, framework
5. bob (hairstyle)

• carré d'agneau
• c’est carré comme en Corée
• élever au carré

• → Russian: каре́ (karé) (see there for further descendants)
• → Polish: kara (“quadrangle”)
• → Turkish: kare

• “carré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• racer

carré m (invariable)

1. loin (of meat)
2. a type of hairstyle in which the hair is all cut to the same length
3. yoke (of a shirt)