chaussée
See also: Chaussee
English
Etymology
Noun
chaussée (plural chaussées)
- 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.
- 1863, unknown, The Edinburgh Review, Volume CXVII., page #160:
References
- “chaussée”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French chauciee, chaucie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *calciāta; there is dispute as to whether this is from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin calx (“lime”) or its homonym, calx (“heel”) (through the verb calciāre (“stamp, tread on”)). Compare English causeway.
Noun
chaussée f (plural chaussées)
Derived terms
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
- feminine singular of the past participle of chausser
Further reading
- “chaussée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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