шоссе
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French chaussée, from Proto-Romance *calciāta.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]шоссе́ • (šossɛ́) n inan (indeclinable, relational adjective шоссе́йный)
- motorway; highway; freeway
- Synonyms: а̀втоба́н f (àvtobán), а̀втомагистра́ль f (àvtomagistrálʹ), а̀втостра́да f (àvtostráda), доро́га f (doróga), магистра́ль f (magistrálʹ), тра́сса f (trássa)
- 1877, Лев Толстой [Leo Tolstoy], “Часть II. Глава XXIV”, in Анна Каренина; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., Anna Karenina, 1901:
- Он вы́шел на шоссе́ и напра́вился, осторо́жно ступа́я по гря́зи, к свое́й коля́ске.
- On výšel na šossé i naprávilsja, ostoróžno stupája po grjázi, k svojéj koljáske.
- He came out on to the high road and walked, picking his way carefully through the mud, to his carriage.
Derived terms
[edit]- вѐлошоссе́ m inan (vèlošossɛ́)
- шла Са́ша по шоссе́ и соса́ла су́шку (šla Sáša po šossɛ́ i sosála súšku)
- шоссе́йка f inan (šossɛ́jka)
- шоссе́йник m inan (šossɛ́jnik)
- шоссе́йница f (šossɛ́jnica)
- шоссе́йный (šossɛ́jnyj)
- прѝшоссе́йный (prìšossɛ́jnyj)
Related terms
[edit]- шосси́ровать (šossírovatʹ)
Descendants
[edit]- → Armenian: շոսսե (šosse), շոշ (šoš) (colloquial, dialectal)
- → Azerbaijani: şose
- → Georgian: შოსე (šose)
- → Uzbek: shosse
- → Yiddish: שאָסיי (shosey)
Further reading
[edit]- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “шоссе”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
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