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contrôler

/kɔ̃.tʁo.le/

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verb/kɔ̃.tʁo.le/

to check or examine; to control

Inherited from Old French contreroller, contreroler, from contrerole, from Medieval Latin contrarotulum (“a counter-roll or register used to verify accounts”), from Latin contrā (“against, opposite”) + Medieval Latin rotulus, Latin rotula (“roll, a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”).