arcade
nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ɑːˈkeɪd//
- États-Unis//ɑɹˈkeɪd//
A row of arches.
nom
- 1
A row of arches.
The walk down to the Underground station is equally easy, as you pass through the restored undercroft along an arcade of two-way spanning 'quadripartite' arches.
- 2
A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
- 3
Variante de amusement arcadeClipping of amusement arcade.
Étymologie
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcus Italian arcatabor. French arcadeubor. English arcade Unadapted borrowing from French arcade, from Italian arcata (“the arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“an arc”). Not etymologically related to Arcadia.
verbe
- 1
To cover (something) as with a series of arches.
[…] its trottoirs brick-paved and shaded by trees of almost tropical foliage—conspicuous among them the odoriferous magnolia, and the melia azedarach, or “Pride of China”—these in places completely arcading the streets—the town of Nachitoches offered the aspect of a rus in urbe, or urbs in rure, whichever way you may wish it.
Formes
- pluriel
- arcades
- passé
- arcaded
- participe passé
- arcaded
- participe présent
- arcading
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- arcades