autostrade

Etymology

Borrowed from French autostrade, from Italian autostrada.

Pronunciation

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Noun

autostrade f (plural autostrades or autostraden, diminutive autostradeke n or autostradetje n)

1. (Belgium) highway, motorway

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.tɔs.tʁad/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

autostrade f (plural autostrades)

1. (obsolete) motorway
   • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1993 ed., Plon, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, chap. XI, p. 108

     [...] si je contemplais aujourd'hui le même site, je constaterais peut-être que l'hybride troupeau a disparu : piétiné par une race plus vigoureuse et plus homogène de gratte-ciel implantés sur ces rives qu'une autostrade a fossilisées d'asphalte.

     — [...] if I could see the same scene today, I would perhaps discover that the hybrid herd has vanished, trampled down by a more vigorous and homogeneous race of skyscrapers established on these banks, which may have themselves been fossilized in asphalt to carry a motor-road. — 1973, John & Doreen Weightman (trans.), Tristes Tropiques, 2011 ed., Penguin Books, →ISBN

Further reading

• “autostrade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Noun

autostrade f

1. plural of autostrada