briquette

English

Alternative forms

• briquet

Etymology

From French briquette, from brique (“brick”) + -ette (“forming diminutives”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /bɹɪˈkɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

briquette (plural briquettes)

1. A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel.
   • 1913, United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 6358, page 2724:

     […] an eggette or briquette manufacturing contract, where, by the compression of tar with these fine particles of culm, there are made pieces of coal about the size of an egg […]

2. A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving.
3. A molded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.

Translations

small brick

• Czech: briketa f
• Danish: briket (da) c
• Dutch: briket (nl)
• Finnish: briketti (fi)
• French: briquette (fr) f
• German: Brikett (de) n
• Hungarian: brikett (hu)
• Polish: brykiet (pl) m
• Portuguese: briquete (pt) m
• Russian: брике́т (ru) m (brikét)

Verb

briquette (third-person singular simple present briquettes, present participle briquetting, simple past and past participle briquetted)

1. (transitive) To form (coal, etc.) into small bricks.

French

Etymology

From brique (“brick”) +‎ -ette (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

briquette f (plural briquettes)

1. a small brick

Descendants

• → English: briquette, briquet
• → German: Brikett
• → Portuguese: briquete m
• → Russian: брикет (briket)
  • → Georgian: ბრიკეტი (briḳeṭi)
• → Turkish: briket

Further reading

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