raton

• IPA^(key): /ˈraton/
• Rhymes: -aton
• Syllabification: ra‧ton

raton

1. accusative singular of rato

raton

1. genitive singular of ratto

• Rotan, rotan, toran

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.tɔ̃/

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From rat +‎ -on.

raton m (plural ratons)

1. young rat
2. raccoon

• raton laveur

• → Romanian: raton

The same as etymology 1. Attested since 1937.

raton m (plural ratons, feminine ratonne)

1. (ethnic slur, very offensive) A North African, especially if Algerian: a greaseball, a dirty wog.

   Synonyms: crouille, bougnoule, bicot

   • 1961, Jean-Paul Sartre, Préface des Les Damnés de la Terre (Frantz Fanon):

     Quel bavardage : liberté, égalité, fraternité, amour, honneur, patrie, que sais-je ? Cela ne nous empêchait pas de tenir en même temps des discours racistes, sale nègre, sale juif, sale raton.

     What gibberish: liberty, fairness, brotherhood, amity, honor, fatherland, what do I know? This doesn't stop us from holding at the same time racist discourse: foul negro, foul kike, foul raghead.

• The word has harsh connotations of racial violence (see ratonnade), particularly towards Algerians, the most famous example being the 1961 Paris massacre (where 40-300 Algerians were drowned or beaten to death amidst the Algerian War)

• ratonnade
• ratonner

• “raton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• trôna

raton

1. first-person plural present indicative of rater
2. first-person plural present subjunctive of rater
3. first-person plural imperative of rater

raton

1. alternative form of ratoun

rātōn

1. genitive/dative singular of rāta
2. dative plural of rāta

• rāta

rātōn

1. accusative singular of rāta
2. nominative/accusative plural of rāta

From Spanish ratón and Portuguese rato and Kabuverdianu ratu.

raton

1. mouse

Borrowed from French raton.

• IPA^(key): /raˈton/

raton m (plural ratoni)

1. raccoon

   Synonym: ursuleț spălător