oubliette

See also: oubliëtte

English

WOTD – 18 April 2012

Etymology

Borrowed from French oubliette, from oublier (“to forget”).

Pronunciation

(General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /uːbliˈɛt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

oubliette (plural oubliettes)

A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top. [from 18th c.]

Hypernyms

dungeon

Translations

dungeon

Czech: hladomorna (cs) f
Dutch: vergetelput m, vergeetput m, oubliëtte (nl) f
Esperanto: ublieto
French: oubliette (fr) f
Ido: karcer-kamero
Italian: oubliette (it) f
Japanese: 地下牢 (ちかろう, chikarō)
Russian: ублие́т m (ublijét)
Swedish: oubliette (sv) c

Further reading

Dungeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From oublier (“to forget”) +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /u.bli.jɛt/
Audio (CAN) (file)

Noun

oubliette f (plural oubliettes)

oubliette [from 14th c.]

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Dutch: oubliëtte
→ English: oubliette
→ Italian: oubliette

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

oubliette f (plural oublietti)

oubliette

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