béret

== English == === Noun === béret (plural bérets) Alternative spelling of beret. === Anagrams === Ebert, B-tree, Berte == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Occitan (Gascon) berret (“cap”), from Medieval Latin birretum, from Late Latin birrus (“large hooded cloak”), from Gaulish birrus (“short cloak”), from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”) (compare Welsh byr, Middle Irish berr). Compare biretta, Catalan barret. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /be.ʁɛ/ === Noun === béret m (plural bérets) beret ==== Derived terms ==== béret vert ==== Descendants ==== → English: beret → Greek: μπερές (berés) → Polish: beret → Romanian: beretă, beret → Russian: бере́т (berét)→ Georgian: ბერეტი (bereṭi)→ Kazakh: берет (beret) → Turkish: bere === Further reading === “béret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012