carrel

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəl/
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• General-American: /ˈkɛɹəl/
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• homophone: carol
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• homophone: Carol
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• rhymes with -æɹəl
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• rhymes with -ɛɹəl
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• CMU ARPABET: K AE1 R AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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A variant of carol (“small closet or enclosure”), from Middle English carole (“round dance with singing; group of people dancing and singing in a circle; circular thing; braid, chain (?); stall for study or writing; writing table; etc.”) (possibly referring to the fact that the item encloses or surrounds the person using it): see further at carol.

Probably borrowed from Middle French carrelé (“type of fabric”), probably from carrelé (“having checks”), an adjective use of the past participle of carreler (“to pave; to tile”) (modern French carreler), from carrel + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). Carrel is a variant of carreau (“square; tile”), from Old French quarel (“square block of stone”), from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, from Latin quadrus (“square”, adjective), probably from quattuor (“four”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kwetwóres (“four”)) + -us (suffix forming adjectives).

Possibly a variant of quarrel.

4 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: työskentelypaikka — cubicle or partitioned space for reading or studying
• French: carrel — cubicle or partitioned space for reading or studying
• Japanese: キャレル (kyareru) — cubicle or partitioned space for reading or studying
• Russian: каррел (karrel) — cubicle or partitioned space for reading or studying