Quartier latin
Letters
14 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Quartier latin is aFrenchname. It means: Quartier qu’occupait autrefois l’Université de Paris et où sont encore la Sorbonne, le Collège de France, les écoles de Droit et de Médecine, plusieurs lycées, etc. Pronounced \kaʁ.tje la.tɛ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Quartier latin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \kaʁ.tje la.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for Quartier latin is 14 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.tje la.tɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Quartier latin in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Quartier latin, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-I-E-R- -L-A-T-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Quartier qu’occupait autrefois l’Université de Paris et où sont encore la Sorbonne, le Collège de France, les écoles de Droit et de Médecine, plusieurs lycées, etc.
- 2Lieu créatif et intellectuel.
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