contrôle

An haplology of Middle French contrerole, a borrowing from Medieval Latin contrarotulum (“a counter-roll or register used to verify accounts”), from Latin contra (“against, opposite”) + Latin rotulus, rotula (“roll, a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁol/

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• Rhymes: -ol

contrôle m (plural contrôles)

1. control (all senses)
2. (education) test

• contrôler
• contrôleur

contrôle

1. first-person singular present indicative of contrôler
2. third-person singular present indicative of contrôler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of contrôler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of contrôler
5. second-person singular imperative of contrôler

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

• colorent