chascun
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French chascun.
Pronoun[edit]
chascun m (feminine chascune, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunes)
- each one; every one
- Ceste oraison dicte par quatre foys, & autant par nous taisiblement murmurée, chascun pour se purger se lava les mains d’eau de fontaine vive (L'Arcadie-Trad-Massin, published 1544, Paris)
- We repeated this four times under our breaths; then each one of us cleansed our hands in the water from the fountain.
- Ceste oraison dicte par quatre foys, & autant par nous taisiblement murmurée, chascun pour se purger se lava les mains d’eau de fontaine vive (L'Arcadie-Trad-Massin, published 1544, Paris)
Adjective[edit]
chascun m (feminine singular chascune, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunes)
Descendants[edit]
- French: chacun
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *cascunum, *casquunum, from a crossing of quisque unum with *catunum < cata unum. Latin cata was a borrowing from Ancient Greek κατά (katá). The variant Old French forms chaün, cheün, and earlier *cadhun (first attested in 842 in the Serments de Strasbourg as cadhuna) derive directly from *catunum.
Pronoun[edit]
chascun m (feminine chascune, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunes)
Adjective[edit]
chascun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular chascune)
Declension[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Old Occitan[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *cascunum, *casquunum, from a crossing of quisque unum with *catunum < cata unum. Latin cata derives from Ancient Greek κατά (katá). Compare Old French chascun; compare also Old Catalan quiscun, modern Catalan cadascun.
Adjective[edit]
chascun m (feminine singular chascuna, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunas)
Descendants[edit]
- Occitan: chascun
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French pronouns
- Middle French adjectives
- Old French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Old French lemmas
- Old French pronouns
- Old French adjectives
- Old Occitan terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Old Occitan terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Old Occitan terms inherited from Latin
- Old Occitan terms derived from Latin
- Old Occitan terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Old Occitan lemmas
- Old Occitan adjectives