contrôle

An haplology of Middle French contrerole, a borrowing from Medieval Latin contrārotulum (“a counter-roll or register used to verify accounts”), from Latin contrā (“against, opposite”) + Latin rotulus, rotula (“roll, a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁol/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ol

contrôle m (plural contrôles)

1. control (all senses)
2. verification, checking
3. (education) test

   Synonym: examen

• → Catalan: control
• → Galician: control
• → Italian: controllo
• → Portuguese: controlo, controle (chiefly Brazil), contrôlo (pre-reform spelling)
• → Romanian: control
• → Spanish: control
• → Turkish: kontrol
• → Persian: کنترل (kontorol)

contrôle

1. inflection of contrôler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• colorent