cauchemar
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare; composed by two elements, blend of cauche and mar.
- First element cauche, from Old French verb from cache, from cauchier (“to press”), from Latin calcō (“trample, tread on”).
- Second element mar, from Middle Dutch mare (“phantom, spirit, nightmare”), from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“malicious female spirit”), related to English homograph mare. More at mare.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /kɔʃ.maʁ/, /koʃ.maʁ/, X-SAMPA: /kOS.maR/, /koS.maR/[1]
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Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: cauchemars
- Hyphenation: cauche‧mar
Noun [edit]
cauchemar m (plural cauchemars)
Antonyms [edit]
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Descendants [edit]
- Esperanto: koŝmaro (borrowed)
- Estonian: košmaar (borrowed)
- Macedonian: кошмар (borrowed)
- Polish: koszmar (borrowed)
- Romanian: coșmar (borrowed)
- Russian: кошмар (borrowed)
- Serbo-Croatian: košmar, кошмар (borrowed)
