cravate

See also: cravaté

English

Noun

cravate (plural cravates)

1. Obsolete form of cravat.
   • 1678, Jean Gailhard, The Compleat Gentleman, page 67:

     […] his Cravate is old, his Shooes are worn out, […]

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Hr̀vāt (“Croat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁa.vat/

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• Rhymes: -at

Noun

cravate f (plural cravates)

1. necktie
2. headlock (wrestling move)
3. (Quebec) Situation in which a canoe is stuck on a rock

Derived terms

• cravater
• (slang) cravate de notaire
• derrière la cravate
• se jeter un verre derrière la cravate

Descendants

• → Gulf Arabic: كرفتة (karafitta)
• → Dutch: kravat
• → English: cravat
• → Galician: gravata
• → German: Krawatte
  • → Czech: kravata
  • → Danish: kravat
  • → Serbo-Croatian: kravata
  • → Slovak: kravata
  • → Ukrainian: краватка (kravatka)
• → Greek: γραβάτα (graváta)
• → Italian: cravatta
  • → Hijazi Arabic: كرفتة (karafitta, karavitta)
  • → Spanish: corbata
    • → Cebuano: korbata
    • → Maranao: korbata
    • → Sambali: korbata
    • → Tagalog: kurbata
    • → Yogad: kurbata
• → Persian: کراوات (kerâvât)
• → Polish: krawat
• → Portuguese: gravata
• → Turkish: kravat
• → Vietnamese: cà vạt

Verb

cravate

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

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

cravate f (plural cravates)

1. necktie

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kraˈvate]

Noun

cravate f

1. inflection of cravată:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular