Noun: arête
| Singular | arête |
| Plural | arêtes |
Sample Sentences
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In his old department in Zürich, they sit in glass cases: models to the life of the peaks he had studied, with the strata painted beautifully and accurately, passing over arête and valley alike. [2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 88:]
Nouns inflected like arête
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French arête, from Latin arista. Doublet of arista. See: French Nouns '
arête'.