/ɑ̃.di.ka.pe/
Translation
disabled
Word origin
From handicap, itself from English 'hand in cap', a lottery-style game later applied to horse racing to mean an equalising disadvantage, plus the French adjectival past-participle suffix -é.
- Origin
- English
- Root
- handicap
- English cognates
- handicap, handicapped
Grammar
Examples
.
This parking space is reserved for disabled people.
.
He has been disabled since a car accident ten years ago.
L' construit rampe .
The school built a ramp for disabled pupils.
France's official language has shifted towards situation ('in a situation of disability') as the more respectful phrase, treating disability as a circumstance rather than a fixed label, but remains the everyday word most learners will meet. It also works as a noun ( , ), not only an adjective, despite AQA's gloss listing it as adjective only.
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