dégât
French
Etymology
Deverbative from Old French deguaster, inherited from Latin dēvastāre (which was borrowed as dévaster). See also gâter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.ɡa/, /de.ɡɑ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) Audio (CAN) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑ
- Homophone: dégâts
Noun
dégât m (plural dégâts)
- damage
- 2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde:
- Mais ces jugements, rendus longtemps après l’infraction, ne règlent pas la question des dégâts causés en temps réel par les messages haineux sur la Toile.
- But these judgments, handed down long after the offense, do not solve the problem of the damage caused in real time by hate messages on the Web.
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Usage notes
In French, the plural is often used where in English the singular would be preferred.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “dégât”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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