patache

Borrowed from Spanish patache, of uncertain origin. The carriage sense is after French.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /paˈtɑːʃ/

patache (plural pataches)

1. A dispatch-boat; a small vessel used to communicate between the vessels of a fleet.
2. A horse-drawn carriage with two wheels used in France.

From Spanish patache.

• IPA^(key): /pa.taʃ/

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patache f (plural pataches)

1. patache (carriage)

• patachon

• → Italian: petaccio

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

Uncertain; perhaps from Arabic بَطَّاش‎ (baṭṭāš).

• IPA^(key): /paˈtat͡ʃe/ [paˈt̪a.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -atʃe
• Syllabification: pa‧ta‧che

patache m (plural pataches)

1. patache (boat)

• → Catalan: patatxo
• → English: patache
• → French: patache
  • → Italian: petaccio

• “patache”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014