paquet

Borrowed from French paquet.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pəˈkɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pəˈkət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [paˈket]

paquet m (plural paquets)

1. packet, parcel
2. punishment, sanction

• empaquetar

• “paquet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “paquet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “paquet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Middle French paquet, from Middle Dutch pac (Dutch pak), from Proto-Germanic *pakkô.

• IPA^(key): /pa.kɛ/

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paquet m (plural paquets)

1. packet
2. pack (of cards)
3. parcel
4. bundle (of clothes)
5. (rugby) pack
6. (colloquial) wad (of cash)

   Il a touché un bon paquet.

   He got a fat sum.

   (literally, “He got a big wad.”)

• faire ses paquets
• mettre le paquet
• paquet de mer
• paquetage

• → Catalan: paquet
• → German: Paket
  • → Romanian: pachet
• → Ottoman Turkish: پاكت (paket)
  • Turkish: paket
• → Sicilian: pachettu
• → Spanish: paquete

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