tête

tête

1. plural of têta

Inherited from Middle French teste, from Old French teste, from Latin testa (“pot, jug, brick”). Replaced French chef (from Latin caput), which is still used in some expressions.

• IPA^(key): /tɛt/
• (Paris) IPA^(key): [tɛtʰ]

  • Audio (Paris); “la tête”:

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• (Switzerland, Lorraine, Belgium) IPA^(key): [tɛːtʰ]

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• (Quebec, standard) IPA^(key): [tɛɪ̯tʰ]

  • [tɛɪ̯tʰ] (Montreal, standard):

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• (Quebec, nonstandard) IPA^(key): [taɪ̯tʰ]

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  • Audio (Quebec, La Tuque); [tɑɪ̯tʰ]:

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  • Audio (Quebec, Laurentides); [tæɪ̯tʰ]:

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tête f (plural têtes)

1. head (part of the body)

   J'ai mal à la tête ― I have a headache

2. head (leader)
3. (soccer) header
4. (colloquial) a bright spark, a quick study

   Ce type-là, c'est une tête ― That guy is bright (literally, “That guy, he's a head”)

5. (perfumery) ellipsis of note de tête (“top note”)

• → German: Tete

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

• teet (Sark)

From Old French teste, from Latin testa (“pot, jug, brick”).

• (Jersey) IPA^(key): /teit/

• Audio (Jersey):

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• (St. Ouen) IPA^(key): /tɛːt/

tête f (plural têtes)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey, anatomy) head