carreau

Borrowed from French carreau. Doublet of quarrel.

carreau (plural carreaux)

1. A Haitian unit of land, 100 square pas: roughly 1.3 hectares or 3.2 acres.
   • 2013, Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Freedom's Seekers:

     In 1809 and 1814, land reform in southern and western Haiti resulted in the estimated redistribution of some 76,000 carreaux of land among 2,322 civil and military officers.

Inherited from Old French quarel, from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus from Classical Latin quadrus. Compare Italian quadrello, Spanish cuadrillo.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁo/

• Audio:

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carreau m (plural carreaux)

1. square (as a geometrical shape)
2. (card games) diamonds (card suit)
3. tile (compare with carrelage, meaning tiles or tiling)
4. windowpane
5. bolt (crossbow projectile)
6. (Haiti) a unit of land, 100 square pas (where a pas is 3.5 French feet or pieds): roughly 1.3 hectares or 3.2 acres
7. (Louisiana) plot, patch (of land, of cloth)
8. (in the plural, colloquial, dated) eyeglasses

• carreauté
• carré
• carrer
• équerre
• square

• → Bulgarian: каро́ (karó)
• → English: carreau
• → German: Karo n

  → Macedonian: каро n (karo)

  → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ка̏ро m

  Latin script: kȁro m

• → Occitan: carrèu
  • → Catalan: carreu
• → Polish: karo n
• → Romanian: carou
• → Turkish: karo
• → Vietnamese: ca-rô

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

From Old French quarel, from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, from Classical Latin quadrus.

carreau m (plural carreaux)

1. (Jersey, card games) diamond