Noun: gâteau
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | gâteau |
| Plural m | gâteaux |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like gâteau
renouveau,
pocheteau,
berceau,
métamatériau,
ypréau,
ypreau,
chaudeau,
lanterneau,
lapineau,
bordeau,
lapereau,
bouleau,
paonneau,
bandeau,
barreau,
bardeau,
barbeau,
zoziau,
mâtineau,
colineau, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French gasteau, from Old French gastel, from Frankish *wastil, from Proto-Germanic *wastilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to eat; consume”). Compare Old English wist (“food; provision; feast”) and obsolete English wastel, Sicilian guasteḍḍa (“a kind of round bread”). See: Old English Nouns '
wist'.
Verbs referencing "gâteau"
English Nouns
gateau, English Nouns
wastel, Middle English Nouns
wastel.
Translations