département

See also: departement, Departement, Département, and dêpartément

English

Etymology

From French département. Doublet of department.

Noun

département (plural départements)

An administrative unit in various French-speaking countries, smaller than a région, similar to an English county.

Related terms

départemental

Translations

administrative unit in various French-speaking countries

Antillean Creole: dépatman
Danish: departement (da) n
Esperanto: departemento
Finnish: departementti (fi)
French: département (fr) m
German: Departement (de) n, Département (de) n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: departement n

Nynorsk: departement n
Portuguese: departamento (pt) m
Russian: департамент (ru) m (departament)
Spanish: departamento (es) m
Swedish: departement (sv) n

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French departement, from departir +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃/
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Noun

département m (plural départements)

Derived terms

départemental

Descendants

→ Catalan: departament
→ Danish: departement
→ English: département
→ Finnish: departementti
→ Galician: departamento
→ Moore: departma
→ Portuguese: departamento
→ Romanian: departament
→ Spanish: departamento
→ Turkish: departman

Further reading

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

Anagrams

empétardent

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