# cabriolet
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪ

### Noun

cabriolet (plural cabriolets)
* An automobile with a retractable top.
* (originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.
** 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.
** 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 72:"I think," said Isabella, startling Louisa, who had been watching the cabriolet down the street, "that Lady Penrhyn might have asked you to go with mamma."

#### Synonyms

* (automobile): convertible
* (carriage pulled by a horse): roadster

#### Derived terms

* cab

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* bacteriol., carbolite

## Dutch
### Etymology

From French cabriolet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌkaː.bri.oːˈlɛ(t)/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ca‧bri‧o‧let
* Rhymes: -ɛ, -ɛt

### Noun

cabriolet m (plural cabrioletten or cabriolets, diminutive cabrioletje n)
* cabriolet, convertible (car with a convertible top)
* cabriolet (light carriage with a convertible top, drawn by one horse)

#### Derived terms

* cabrio

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: kabriolèt

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cabriola, cabriole (“horse caper”) +‎ -et, from Latin capreolus, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfer, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor. Doublet of Chevrolet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ/

### Noun

cabriolet m (plural cabriolets)
* a cabriolet carriage
* a convertible car
* a knotted cord, each end tied to wood, to tie criminals to by the wrists
* a Directoire style hat type

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: cabriolé
* → Czech: kabriolet
* → Danish: cabriolet
* → Dutch: cabriolet
* → English: cabriolet
* → German: Cabriolet
* → Galician: cabriolé
* → Italian: cabriolet, cabriolè
* → Norwegian Bokmål: kabriolet
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: kabriolet
* → Portuguese: cabriolé
* → Spanish: cabriolé
* → Swedish: cabriolet

### See also

* coupé-cabriolet

### References

* Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

### Further reading

* “cabriolet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* cabriolè

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French cabriolet, from Italian cabriola.

### Noun

cabriolet f (invariable)
* (automotive) cabriolet
    Synonym: cabrio

### Further reading

* cabriolet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

### Noun

cabriolet n (plural cabriolete)
* cabriolet

#### Declension
### References

* cabriolet in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

### Noun

cabriolet c
* cabriolet (vehicle)

#### Synonyms

* cab

### Further reading

* cabriolet in Svensk ordbok.