cul-de-sac

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• General-American: /ˈkʌldəsæk/
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• UK: /ˈkʌldəsak/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AH1 L D IH0 S AE2 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der. Proto-Italic *kūlos Latin cūlus Old French cul Middle French cul French cul Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h1 Proto-Indo-European *déh1 Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Old French de Middle French de French de Ancient Greek σᾰ́κκος (sắkkos)bor. Latin saccus Old French sac French sac French cul-de-sacbor. English cul-de-sac Borrowed from French cul-de-sac, from cul (“bottom”) + de (“of”) + sac (“bag, sack”).

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 死衚衕 /死胡同 (sǐhútòng) — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• Chinese Mandarin: 死路 (sǐlù) — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• Chinese Mandarin: 死巷 (sǐxiàng) — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• Finnish: kääntöpaikka — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• French: bout de cul-de-sac résidentiel — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• German: Wendeplatte — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• German: Wendekreis — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• German: Wendehammer — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• Latin: fundula — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• Macedonian: ќо́р-сокак (ḱór-sokak) — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• Norwegian: snuplass — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• Portuguese: cul-de-sac — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• Portuguese: balão de retorno — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• Russian: тупик (tupik) — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• Spanish: culdesac — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• Swedish: vändplats — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• Swedish: vändplan — circular area at the end of a dead end street
• Chinese Mandarin: 陷凹 (xiàn'āo) — medicine: a sacklike cavity or tube
• Finnish: tasku — medicine: a sacklike cavity or tube
• Finnish: pussi — medicine: a sacklike cavity or tube
• German: Tasche — medicine: a sacklike cavity or tube
• Greek: κόλπωμα (kólpoma) — medicine: a sacklike cavity or tube
• Icelandic: blindpoki — medicine: a sacklike cavity or tube
• Portuguese: saco — medicine: a sacklike cavity or tube
• Portuguese: bolsa — medicine: a sacklike cavity or tube
• Russian: слепо́й мешо́к (slepój mešók) — medicine: a sacklike cavity or tube