parc fermé

• parc ferme, parc fermee, park ferme, park fermee

Borrowed from French parc fermé, from parc (“park”)+fermé (“closed”), from parking (“parking lot”)+fermer (“to close”), from English parking lot+Latin firmare (“to close”). (The governing body for international automobile motorsport is the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA, whose rules are written in French. The official translators tend, when translating into English, to leave any words/phrases without a simple translation in the original tongue; another example is habitacle, passenger compartment.)

parc fermé (plural parcs fermés)

1. (motor racing) A secure car park where competing cars must be left, and where no maintenance, repairs, or enhancements may be performed, for example during rest periods.
2. (motor racing) A car configuration race condition, where no or severely limited modifications may be made on a racing car, while the race condition is active.

• (motorsport): Parc Fermé, Parc fermé, parc Fermé

From parc (“park”) + fermé (“closed”). From Middle French parc (“enclosure”)+fermer (“to close”). From Germanic("enclosure")+Latin firmare (“to close”)

• IPA^(key): /paʁk fɛʁ.me/

parc fermé m (plural parcs fermés)

1. a park which is closed, or with restricted entry
2. (motor racing) parc fermé: a secure car park where competing cars must be left, for example during rest periods, and where no maintenance, repairs, or enhancements may be carried out
3. (motor racing) parc fermé: a race condition where modifications to race cars are disallowed or severely limited
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see parc,‎ fermer.

• English: parc fermé