tête

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]
  • Paris, France (la tête): IPA^(key): [la ˈtɛtʰ]
• (Lorraine) (Belgium) and (Suisse) IPA^(key): [tɛːtʰ]
  • Vosges, France:

    [tɛːtʰ]

    (file)

  • Walloon Brabant, Belgium: IPA^(key): [tɛːtʰ]
  • Canton of Valais: IPA^(key): [tɛːtʰ]
• (Quebec, standard) IPA^(key): [tɛɪ̯tʰ]
  • Montreal, Canada: IPA^(key): [tɛɪ̯tʰ]
• (Quebec, nonstandard) IPA^(key): [taɪ̯tʰ]
  • Montreal, Canada: IPA^(key): [taɪ̯tʰ]
  • La Tuque, Canada: IPA^(key): [tɑɪ̯tʰ]
  • Saguenay, Canada: IPA^(key): [taɪ̯tʰ]
  • Laurentides, Canada IPA^(key): [tæɪ̯tʰ]

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 ― This guy is a head

• “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)

  (file)

• (Saint Ouen) IPA^(key): /tɛːt/

tête f (plural têtes)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey, anatomy) head