gazette

1605; borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetian gazeta dele novità (17th century), named for the gazeta (“halfpenny”) (first minted 1539). The Venetian gazeta (newspaper) cost a gazeta (coin); compare penny dreadful, dime novel.

The etymology of the coin’s name is disputed.[1] Most likely, it is from Venetian garzia (1518), variant of Venetian carzie (“a coin of little value”) (Greek dialect χαρξια (charxia)), ultimately from Ancient Greek χαλκός (khalkós, “copper, copper alloy”), itself probably ultimately a borrowing. Traditionally it is usually considered a diminutive of Latin gāza (“treasure”) (as in Medieval Latin gazetum), from Ancient Greek γάζα (gáza), of Iranian origin, probably ultimately Median (Persian گنج‎ (ganj)). An alternative is from German Kreuzer (“a small coin with a cross”), due to a cross on one of the coin’s faces.

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈzɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

gazette (plural gazettes)

1. A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; especially, the official journal published by the British government, containing legal and state notices.

• gazetteer
• have one's name in the Gazette

gazette (third-person singular simple present gazettes, present participle gazetting, simple past and past participle gazetted)

1. To publish in a gazette.
2. (Britain) To announce the status of in an official gazette. This pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.
   • 1938, George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, Chapter 12,

     Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major.

• degazette

• dime novel
• penny dreadful

From Italian gazzetta.

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.zɛt/

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gazette f (plural gazettes)

1. gazette

• Russian: газе́та (gazéta)
• Polish: gazeta f

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

Borrowed from French gazette.

gazette f

1. newspaper (printed sheet published periodically)