| Title: | Slaughterhouse |
| Original Title: | Abatis |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 11 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (biography) |
| Translator: | Mark K. Jensen [Pacific Lutheran University] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis. "Slaughterhouse." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.540>. Trans. of "Abatis," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis. "Slaughterhouse." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.540 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Abatis," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:11 (Paris, 1751). |
Slaughterhouse, place where butchers kill their livestock. [1] See Slaughtering.
1. Contemporary French uses the term abattoir, which according to Robert is first attested in 1806. The word abatis, now spelled abattis, had by end of the 20th century mostly disappeared from general use. Originally meaning massacre, it came to signify large killing of game (1549) and slaughterhouse (1690). The metonymic meaning of parts of animals after slaughtering is attested in 1680, specifically for poultry in 1690. Alain Rey et al., Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, new edition (Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert, 1995), vol. 1, p. 2.