chaussée

See also: Chaussee

English

Etymology

From French chaussée.

Noun

chaussée (plural chaussées)

1. Level of soil.
   • 1863, unknown, The Edinburgh Review, Volume CXVII., page #160:

     Its other angles are at Quatre Bras and Sombreffe, where each of the two roads from Charleroi respectively falls upon the chaussée that forms the base of this triangle.

References

• chaussée in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.se/

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Etymology 1

From Old French chauciee, chaucie, from Vulgar Latin *calciāta; there is dispute as to whether this is from Latin calx (“lime”) or its homonym, calx (“heel”) (through the verb calciāre (“stamp, tread on”)). Compare English causeway.

Noun

chaussée f (plural chaussées)

1. highway; street
2. surface (of road)
3. causeway

Derived terms

• rez-de-chaussée

Descendants

• Armenian: շոսսե (šosse)
• Azerbaijani: şose
• English: chaussée
• Esperanto: ŝoseo
• German: Chaussee
• Kurdish: şose
• Polish: szosa
• Romanian: șosea
• Russian: шоссе́ (šossé)
• Turkish: şose
• Uzbek: shosse

Etymology 2

Participle

chaussée

1. feminine singular of the past participle of chausser

Further reading

• “chaussée” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).