Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cunette

/kjuːˈnɛt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cu-nette
IPA: /kjuːˈnɛt/

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.

Example Sentences

"Ford's Ravelin.—Completed in its ditch, ſluices, cunette, aqueducts, ſcarp, and counterſcarp walls; […]"
"Nor was anything done at San Pablo except the cutting of two cunettes necessary for working with heavy machinery, and the projection of a plane for a passage under the Panama Railway, by which the excavations made at K. 35.700 could be carried to the banks of the Chagres."
"In principle, cunettes are carried out with a view to substituting poor load bearing and highly compressible strata with sand with a view to a) reducing residual settlements and b) improving stability."

Etymology

From French cunette (possibly also lacunette), from Italian cunetta (“cunette”), said to be from lacunetta, diminutive of lacuna (“ditch; lagoon; gap”), from Latin lacūna (“hole, pit; cavity, cleft, hollow, opening; gap, void”), from lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: cunette, cunetta, lacūna, *lókus

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /kjuːˈnɛt/
British English: /kjuːˈnɛt/

Inflected Forms

cunettes (plural)

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce cunette?: The recorded pronunciation is /kjuːˈnɛt/.
What does cunette mean?: A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.
Where does cunette come from?: It is traced to French.

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