dénouement

See also: denouement

English

WOTD – 14 May 2011

Alternative forms

denouement

Etymology

Borrowed from French dénouement.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /deˈnuːmɑ̃/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌdeɪ.nuˈmɑnt/, /ˌdeɪ.nuˈmɑ̃/

Noun

dénouement (plural dénouements)

(authorship, often used metaphorically) The conclusion or resolution of a plot.

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:dénouement.

Translations

the conclusion or resolution of a plot

Chinese:
Mandarin: 結局 (zh), 结局 (zh) (jiéjú), 收場 (zh), 收场 (zh) (shōuchǎng)
Dutch: ontknoping (nl)
Finnish: loppuratkaisu
German: Auflösung (de) f

Irish: dénouement, scaoileadh m
Maori: tatūnga
Russian: разга́дка (ru) f (razgádka), развя́зка (ru) f (razvjázka), исхо́д (ru) m (isxód), разреше́ние (ru) n (razrešénije)
Serbo-Croatian: rasplet (sh) m
Welsh: diweddglo m

French

Alternative forms

dénoûment

Etymology

dénouer +‎ -ment, from Middle French desnouement, from the Old French verb desnoer (“to unknot”) + -ment, from the noun neu (“knot”), itself from Latin nōdus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /de.nu.mɑ̃/
Audio (file)

Noun

dénouement m (plural dénouements)

outcome
(theater) dénouement

Further reading

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

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