arrêté
French, noun
arrêté is spelled A-R-R-Ê-T-É (6 letters) and appears 95 times per million words in written French, the 871st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrêté is a French masculine noun meaning “agreement, resolution, a thing agreed on, resolved upon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of arrêter. With an accent, arrête is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Décision d’une autorité administrative individuelle”.
What does arrêté mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineagreement, resolution, a thing agreed on, resolved upon
C'est un arrêté de la compagnie.
- 2
masculineorder (ruling by an official imposing certain conditions on a group or individual)
un arrêté ministériel
adjective
- 1
fixed, immovable, settled (ideas, opinion)
verb
- 1
past participle of arrêter
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est immobile, immuable. 2. Debout, en position verticale 3. Se dit d'un animal quadrupède représenté avec les quatre pattes posées au sol.
noun: 1. Décision d’une autorité administrative individuelle. 2. Clôture des comptes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of arrêté
- arrêtés plural
- arrêtée feminine
- arrêtées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to arrêté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arrêté in French?
arrêté appears 95 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).