chalet

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See also: châlet

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (herdsman's hut in the mountains).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃæleɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

chalet (plural chalets)

  1. An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves. [from late 18th c.]
    • 2013 January, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 1, page 62:
      Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

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French

Etymology

Swiss French, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (herdsman's hut in the mountains), from Old Franco-Provençal chaslet, diminutive of chasel (farmhouse), from Late Latin casalis (house-like, house-related), from Latin casa (house).

Pronunciation

Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)

  1. chalet

Descendants

  • English: chalet
  • Portuguese: chalé
  • Spanish: chalé, chalet

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French chalet.

Noun

chalet m (uncountable)

  1. chalet

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) chalet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of chalō

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English chalet.

Pronunciation

Noun

chalet

  1. chalet (wooden house)

Spanish

chalet

Etymology

Borrowed from French chalet.

Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)

  1. cottage, chalet

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