ratatouille

Borrowed from French ratatouille, from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dish originally from Nice, and is also found in Provence), French form from diminutive prefix tat- + touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudiculō (“grind, mix”), from tudes (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *tud-, from *(s)tewd-.

• IPA^(key): /ɹæ.tə.ˈtuː.i/, /ɹæ.tə.ˈtwiː/
• Rhymes: -uːi, -iː

ratatouille (countable and uncountable, plural ratatouilles)

1. A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant, with other ingredients.

• aural toilet

Learned borrowing from French ratatouille, from Occitan ratatolha. The French is analysable as a derivative of touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudiculare (“to grind, to mix”). Doublet of the popular borrowing ratjetoe.

• IPA^(key): /raːtaːˈtujə/

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• Hyphenation: ra‧ta‧touil‧le

ratatouille f (plural ratatouilles)

1. ratatouille: a traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant, with other ingredients.

Borrowed from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dish from Nice, in Provence), French form from diminutive prefix tat- + touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudiculō (“to grind, mix”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.ta.tuj/

ratatouille f (plural ratatouilles)

1. A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant, with other ingredients.
2. (Louisiana) beating, whipping

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