contrôler

Meaning

1. to check or examine
2. to control

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɔ̃.tʁo.le/

Etymology

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”).