patrouille

Borrowed from Middle French patrouille, from Old French patrouille.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaːˈtru.jə/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧trouil‧le

patrouille f (plural patrouilles)

1. patrol (going of the rounds)
2. patrol (group of guards doing rounds)

• patrouilleren

• Afrikaans: patrollie
• → Indonesian: patroli

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From Old French patrouille, patouille (“a night-watch”, literally “a tramping about”), from patrouiller, patouiller, patoiller (“to paddle or pudder in water, dabble with the feet, begrime, besmear”), from patte, pate (“paw, foot of an animal”).

patrouille f (plural patrouilles)

1. patrol

• → Dutch: patrouille
• → English: patrol
• → Italian: pattuglia
• → Portuguese: patrulha
• → Spanish: patrulla
• → Swedish: patrull

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

patrouille

1. inflection of patrouiller:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• polluerait