cabriolet - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

• IPA^(key): /kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

cabriolet (plural cabriolets)

1. An automobile with a retractable top.
2. (originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.

   • 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:

     Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 72:

     "I think," said Isabella, startling Louisa, who had been watching the cabriolet down the street, "that Lady Penrhyn might have asked you to go with mamma."

• (automobile): convertible
• (carriage pulled by a horse): roadster

• cab

• bacteriol., carbolite

From French cabriolet.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaː.bri.oːˈlɛ(t)/
• Hyphenation: ca‧bri‧o‧let
• Rhymes: -ɛ, -ɛt

cabriolet m (plural cabrioletten or cabriolets, diminutive cabrioletje n)

1. cabriolet, convertible (car with a convertible top)
2. cabriolet (light carriage with a convertible top, drawn by one horse)

• cabrio

• → Indonesian: kabriolèt

Borrowed from Italian cabriola, cabriole (“horse caper”) +‎ -et, from Latin capreolus, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfer, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor. Doublet of Chevrolet.

• IPA^(key): /ka.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ/

cabriolet m (plural cabriolets)

1. a cabriolet carriage
2. a convertible car
3. a knotted cord, each end tied to wood, to tie criminals to by the wrists
4. a Directoire style hat type

• coupé-cabriolet

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

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

• cabriolè

Unadapted borrowing from French cabriolet, from Italian cabriola.

cabriolet f (invariable)

1. (automotive) cabriolet

   Synonym: cabrio

• cabriolet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

cabriolet n (plural cabriolete)

1. cabriolet

• cabriolet in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

cabriolet c

1. cabriolet (vehicle)

• cab

• cabriolet in Svensk ordbok.