cheminée

See also: cheminee and Cheminée

French

Etymology

From Old French cheminee, from Late Latin [camera] camīnāta, from Latin camīnus (“furnace”), from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃə.mi.ne/

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Noun

cheminée f (plural cheminées)

1. a chimney
2. a fireplace or hearth
3. a vertical vent, exhaust or gallery
4. a hole at the centre of some models of parachute
5. the glass tube protecting the flame of a kerosene or similar wick lamp
6. (technology) a vertical vacuum forming in a gasifier
7. (welding) a type of welding fault
8. (geology) the exhaust of a volcano
9. (geology) a vertical mineral vein
10. (theater) large pipe containing ropes that serves to control theater backdrops

Derived terms

• cheminée des fées
• cheminée d’appel
• fumer comme une cheminée

 

Descendants

• → German: Cheminée
• → Persian: شومینه (šomine)
• → Romanian: șemineu
• → Turkish: şömine

Further reading

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