arête

• arete

Borrowed from French arête, from Latin arista. Doublet of arista.

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹɛt/, /əˈɹeɪt/

arête (plural arêtes)

1. (geology) A very thin ridge of rock.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 88:

     In his old department in Zürich, they sit in glass cases: models to the life of the peaks he had studied, with the strata painted beautifully and accurately, passing over arête and valley alike.

• areet, eater, ratee, teare

Old French areste, from Latin arista.

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁɛt/

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• Homophones: arêtes, arrête, arrêtes, arrêtent

arête f (plural arêtes)

1. (zoology) bone (of a fish), fishbone
2. edge (of an object); ridge, crest (of mountain)
3. (architecture) groin (of vault)
4. bridge of nose
5. (botany) beard (of rye, barley etc.)
6. (graph theory) edge

• “arête” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ratée