chef
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from French chef, from Old French chief (“head, leader”) (English chief), from Late Latin capum (“head”) (from which also captain, chieftain), from Latin caput (“head”) (English cap (“head covering”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chef (plural chefs)
Synonyms[edit]
- (head cook): cook
Translations[edit]
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Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
chef c (singular definite chefen, plural indefinite chefer)
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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chef (file)
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
chef m (plural chefs, diminutive chefje, feminine cheffin)
Derived terms[edit]
- chefkok m
- sergeant-chef m
- stationchef m
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French chief, from Latin caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chef m (plural chefs)
- (now literary) head
- opiner du chef.
- to nod.
- opiner du chef.
- article, principal point.
- Les principaux chefs d’une demande.
- principal motive
- Le procureur a tenu à refaire une lecture des chefs d’accusation.
- top third of a coat of arms
Derived terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
chef m (plural chefs; feminine cheffe, plural cheffes)
- A boss, chief
- Le pape est le chef de l’Église.
- A culinary chef, chief cook
- Créant dans des établissements de prestige de nombreuses recettes reprises ensuite par d'autres chefs, Escoffier a fait connaitre internationalement la cuisine française.
Derived terms[edit]
- adjudant-chef
- cheffe
- chefferie
- cheftaine
- en chef
- chef d'entreprise
- chef d'État
- chef d'état-major
- chef d'orchestre
- chef de famille
- chef de file
- commandant en chef
- ingénieur en chef
- sergent-chef
- sous-chef
References[edit]
- "chef" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
chef m (invariable)
Jèrriais[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French chief, from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-.
Noun[edit]
chef m (plural chefs)
Derived terms[edit]
- chef dé deu (“chief mourner”)
- chef dé musique (“conductor”)
Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
chef m (oblique plural chefs, nominative singular chés, nominative plural chef)
- Alternative form of chief.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (good) disposition, mood
- desire, wish
- (figuratively) appetite
- whim, caprice
- shindig, blowout,
- revelry, binge; by extension, drunkenness
See also[edit]
- (disposition) dispoziție
- (wish): dorință
- (appetite): poftă
- (caprice): capriciu, dambla
- (shindig): petrecere, zaiafet
- (drunkenness): beție
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
chef m and f (plural chef)
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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audio (file)
Noun[edit]
chef c
- A boss; person in charge, person who directly oversees the work being done
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- English terms derived from French
- English borrowed terms
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Occupations
- Danish terms derived from French
- Danish borrowed terms
- Danish nouns
- Dutch terms derived from French
- Dutch borrowed terms
- Dutch nouns
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French literary terms
- Italian terms derived from French
- Italian borrowed terms
- Italian nouns
- Jèrriais terms derived from Old French
- Jèrriais terms derived from Latin
- Jèrriais terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Jèrriais nouns
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- Old French alternative forms
- fro:Anatomy
- Romanian terms derived from Turkish
- Romanian nouns
- Spanish terms derived from French
- Spanish borrowed terms
- Spanish nouns
- es:Occupations
- Swedish terms derived from French
- Swedish borrowed terms
- Swedish nouns