angelot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French angelot, Late Latin angelotus.

Noun

angelot (plural angelots) (obsolete)

1. A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI, bearing the image of Saint Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.
2. A sort of small, rich cheese made in Normandy, especially Pont-l'Évêque cheese but formerly applied to other cheeses.
3. (music) An old musical instrument of the lute kind.
   • 1840 March, Robert Browning, “Book the Second”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 66:

     Much as you study arras how to twirl / His Angelot, plaything of page and girl, / Once; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “angelot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Gleaton, tangelo

Catalan

Etymology

From àngel +‎ -ot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əɲ.ʒəˈlɔt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [aɲ.d͡ʒeˈlɔt]

Noun

angelot m (plural angelots)

1. (colloquial) a little angel, cherub (good-natured, good-hearted person)
2. (decorative arts) putto (naked winged child used as a decorative element)
3. (zoology) angel shark

   Synonym: escat

Related terms

• angelet

Further reading

• “angelot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From angelus +‎ -ot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃ʒ.lo/

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Noun

angelot m (plural angelots)

1. small angel

References

• “angelot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading

• “angelot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.