German

Noun

Crevette f ‎(genitive Crevette, plural Crevetten)

1. Alternative form of Krevette

Declension

English

Noun

crevette ‎(plural crevettes)

1. A shrimp.

French

Etymology

From Norman crevette, attested in 1532, from earlier cravette, crabette. These are diminutives of crabe ‎(“crab”), but may be influenced by a word going back to Frankish *krebit ‎(“crayfish”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz, possibly via Middle Dutch crevet ‎(“crayfish”), from Old Dutch *krevit. Compare also French écrevisse, Old Saxon krevit, Old High German krebiz. More at crayfish.

The word crevette was associated with phonetically similar Norman kevrette ‎(“young goat”), which led to the French equivalent chevrette being occasionally used in the sense of “shrimp”. This is, in all likelihood, a secondary confusion rather than the actual origin of crevette, as supposed in some of the literature.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁə.vɛt/

Noun

crevette f ‎(plural crevettes)

1. shrimp

Derived terms

• crevette nordique f

Interlingue

Noun

crevette

1. shrimp