raccroc
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.kʁo/
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- IPA(key): /ʁa.kʁɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)
- Rhymes: -o, -ɔ
Noun
raccroc m (uncountable)
- (formal) chance, fluke (random occurrence, luck)
- Synonym: hasard
- 1957, André Martinet, “Arbirtraire linguistique et double articulation”, in Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure, 15: 105-16:
- Toutes les langues connues utilisent des signes combinables et un système phonologique. Mais il y en a, comme le français, qui, pourrait-on presque dire, n’utilisent les latitudes prosodiques que par superfétation ou par raccroc.
- All known languages use combinable signs and a phonological system. But there are some, like French, that could be said to use the full prosodic scope only superfluously or by chance.
Usage notes
- Usually occurs in the phrase par raccroc (“by chance”).
Further reading
- “raccroc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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