Dictionary

carré

/ka.ʁe/

adjective/ka.ʁe/

square; quadratic; straightforward

Inherited from Middle French quarré, from Old French quarré, from Latin quadrātus. Compare the borrowed doublet cadrat.

noun, masculine/ka.ʁe/plural: carrés

square; second power, power of 2; patch (of land); four of a kind; frame, framework

“élever un nombre au carré” — to square a number

Inherited from Middle French quarré, from Old French quarré, from Latin quadrātus. Compare the borrowed doublet cadrat.