carnaval
French
noun
Definitions
- The carnival, last festive occasion before Lent, notably on Shrove Tuesday, marked by a masked parade and/or ball
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian carnevale (carnival) derived from Latin carnelevale.
Origin
Latin
carnelevale
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- carnival English
- carnivalesque English
- carnivalic English
- carnivalistic English
- carnivalize English
- carnivallike English
- noncarnival English
- carnelevale Latin
- carnem Latin
- Karneval German
- carnevale Italian
- carnivale Italian
- carnaval Dutch, Flemish
- carnavalsnaam Dutch, Flemish
- carnavalesque French
- carnavaleux French
- carnavalier French
- carnavaliser French
- карнава́л Russian
- карнавал Russian
- карнавальный Russian
- carnaval Spanish, Castilian
- carnavalesco Spanish, Castilian
- *(s)ker- Proto-Indo-European
- karneval Norwegian Bokmål
- carnaval Portuguese
- karneval Norwegian Nynorsk
- carnaval Catalan, Valencian
- карнавал Kazakh
- كرنڤال Hijazi Arabic