gobelet

French

Etymology

From Old French gobel, from Old Occitan gobel (“to swallow up”), from Gaulish *gobbos, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“muzzle, snout, beak”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵoph₃o- (“eat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔ.blɛ/

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Noun

gobelet m (plural gobelets)

1. goblet, cup
2. beaker
3. tumbler

Derived terms

• gobeloter
• gobeleterie

Related terms

• gobelotage

Descendants

• → Portuguese: gobelé
• → Romanian: gobelet

Further reading

• gobelet on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “gobelet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Noun

gobelet m (plural gobelets)

1. goblet

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gobelet.

Noun

gobelet n (plural gobeleturi)

1. goblet, cup

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	gobelet	gobeletul		gobeleturi	gobeleturile
genitive-dative	gobelet	gobeletului		gobeleturi	gobeleturilor
vocative	gobeletule			gobeleturilor

References

• gobelet in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN