excavateur

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Calque of English excavator.

Pronunciation[edit]

Audio: (file)

Noun[edit]

excavateur m (plural excavateurs)

excavator (vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe)
Synonym: excavatrice

Descendants[edit]

→ Romanian: excavator
→ Turkish: ekskavatör

Further reading[edit]

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

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