carrel
A partitioned space for reading or studying, often in a libraryA partitioned space for reading or studying, often in a library.
Meaning
3 senses(broadly)A partitioned space for reading or studying, often in a library.
Near-synonym: cubicle (sometimes synonymous)
He was busy writing his report in a small library carrel.
каррелkarrel
(obsolete)A type of fabric used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
(obsolete)Synonym of quarrel (“a square-headed arrow”).
- small individual study area in a library
- French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944)
Translations
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Origin
A variant of carol (“small closet or enclosure”), from Middle English carole (“round danceA variant of carol (“small closet or enclosure”), from Middle English carole (“round dance with singing; group of people dancing and singing in a circle; circular thing; braid, chain (?); stall for study or writing; writing table; etc.”) (possibly referring to the fact that the item encloses or surrounds the person using it): see further at carol.
Probably borrowed from Middle French carrelé (“type of fabric”), probably from carrelé (“having checks”), an adjective use of the past participle of carreler (“to pave; to tile”) (modern French carreler), from carrel + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). Carrel is a variant of carreau (“square; tile”), from Old French quarel (“square block of stone”), from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, from Latin quadrus (“square”, adjective), probably from quattuor (“four”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”)) + -us (suffix forming adjectives).
Possibly a variant of quarrel.
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