cabotin
French
Pronunciation
Noun
cabotin m (plural cabotins, feminine cabotine)
- (theater) ham (actor)
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Elle entendait la clochette du théâtre qui appelait les cabotins à la représentation; et elle voyait, en face, passer des hommes à figure blanche et des femmes en toilette fanée, qui entraient par la porte des coulisses.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- poser
Descendants
- → Romanian: cabotin
Adjective
cabotin (feminine cabotine, masculine plural cabotins, feminine plural cabotines)
- camp, overly theatrical
Further reading
- “cabotin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
cabotin m (plural cabotini, feminine equivalent cabotină)
- ham (actor)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | cabotin | cabotinul | cabotini | cabotinii | |
| genitive-dative | cabotin | cabotinului | cabotini | cabotinilor | |
| vocative | cabotinule | cabotinilor | |||