squelette

From Middle French scelette, a learned borrowing from Latin sceletus, from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”).

• IPA^(key): /skə.lɛt/

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• Homophone: squelettes
• Rhymes: -ɛt

squelette m (plural squelettes)

1. (anatomy) skeleton
2. (figuratively) a very thin person

• squelettique

• → Ottoman Turkish: اسكلت (iskelet)
  • Turkish: iskelet
• → Persian: اسکلت (eskelet)
• → Romanian: schelet

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