le
/e.ta.blis.mɑ̃/
Translation
establishment; institution (school, hospital); setting up
Word origin
From établir ('to establish') plus the noun suffix -issement, ultimately from Latin stabilire ('to make firm'), from stabilis ('stable'). English establish and stable come from the same root.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- stabilire
- English cognates
- establish, stable
Grammar
Examples
accueille .
This school takes five hundred pupils.
L' .
Establishing new rules took several months.
.
She works in a healthcare establishment.
In everyday French, most often just means "a school" or "an institution" like a hospital or clinic, said of the building and organisation rather than the abstract act of founding it. It rarely carries the English sense of a drinking establishment or a long-standing business.
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