voûte

See also: voute, vouté, and voûté

French

Alternative forms

voute (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French volte, from Vulgar Latin *volta < *volvita or *volŭta, for Latin volūta, from the feminine of volūtus, perfect passive participle of volvō. Compare Italian volta; cf. also Spanish bóveda.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vut/
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Rhymes: -ut

Noun

voûte f (plural voûtes)

(architecture) arch
(architecture) vault

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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