chaîne
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French chaisne, from Old French chaene, chaiene, caiene, inherited from Latin catēna. Doublet of cadène and catène. The long vowel derives from the Old French hiatus; by analogy the length was expressed with a silent -s- in Middle French, which was then replaced with the circumflex.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ʃɛn/, /ʃɛːn/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ʃa.ɛ̯n/, /ʃɛːn/
- (Meridional French) IPA(key): /ˈʃɛ.nə/ ~ /ˈʃe.nə/
- Homophones: chaînent, chaînes, chêne, chênes
- Rhymes: -ɛn
Noun
[edit]chaîne f (plural chaînes)
- chain
- La chaîne est trop courte, nous n’y arriverons pas.
- The chain is too short, we aren't reaching it.
- (television) channel
- Pouvez-vous changer de chaîne, s’il vous plaît?
- Can you change the channel, please?
- 2015 November 21, “« Storage Wars », une chasse au trésor bien artificielle”, in Le Monde[1]:
- En janvier, 6ter a été la première chaîne à diffuser le format original de « Storage Wars » qui se déroule en Californie et qui a réuni 215 000 téléspectateurs lors de la première diffusion, le 3 janvier, en deuxième partie de soirée.
- In January, 6ter was the first channel to broadcast the original format of Storage Wars, which takes place in California and attracted 215,000 viewers for the first broadcast on January 3 during the prime-time slot.
- (textiles) warp
- (music) hi-fi or stereo system
- (computer science) character string
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]chaîne
- inflection of chaîner:
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “chaîne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French chaine, chaene (“chain”), from Latin catēna (“chain”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to braid, twist; hut, shed”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (colloquial) IPA(key): /ʃeːn/
Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]chaîne f (plural chaînes)
Derived terms
[edit]- chaîne d'èrmuage (“property chain”)
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