noun, masculine/so/plural: seaux
pail, bucket
Synonyms: chaudière
Related: avoir la tête comme un seau, pleuvoir à seaux
Etymology tree Latin situla Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -la Latin sitella Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Old Latin -os Latin -us Vulgar Latin *sitellus Old French seel French seau Inherited from Old French seel, from Vulgar Latin *sitellus, from sitella (“kind of urn”).