chose
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
chose
- simple past tense of choose
Etymology 2[edit]
French, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”). See cause.
Noun[edit]
chose (plural choses)
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French chose, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others. Compare cause, a borrowed doublet.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chose f (plural choses)
- thing
- 1580, Michel de Montaigne, De la cruauté, Essais
- Les Agrigentins avaient en usage commun d’enterrer sérieusement les bêtes qu’ils avaient eu chères, comme les chevaux de quelque rare mérite, les chiens et les oiseaux utiles, ou même qui avaient servi de passe-temps à leurs enfants : et la magnificence qui leur était ordinaire en toutes autres choses paraissait aussi singulièrement à la somptuosité et nombre de monuments élevés à cette fin, qui ont duré en parade plusieurs siècles depuis.
- The Agrigentines had a common use solemnly to inter the beasts they had a kindness for, as horses of some rare quality, dogs, and useful birds, and even those that had only been kept to divert their children; and the magnificence that was ordinary with them in all other things, also particularly appeared in the sumptuosity and numbers of monuments erected to this end, and which remained in their beauty several ages after.
- Les Agrigentins avaient en usage commun d’enterrer sérieusement les bêtes qu’ils avaient eu chères, comme les chevaux de quelque rare mérite, les chiens et les oiseaux utiles, ou même qui avaient servi de passe-temps à leurs enfants : et la magnificence qui leur était ordinaire en toutes autres choses paraissait aussi singulièrement à la somptuosité et nombre de monuments élevés à cette fin, qui ont duré en parade plusieurs siècles depuis.
- 1580, Michel de Montaigne, De la cruauté, Essais
Descendants[edit]
- → German: Chose
Further reading[edit]
- “chose” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams[edit]
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French chose, cose.
Noun[edit]
chose f (plural choses)
Descendants[edit]
- French: chose
Norman[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (Saint Ouen) chôthe
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Adjective[edit]
chose m, f
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From earlier cose, cosa, inherited from Latin causa. Compare cause.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chose f (oblique plural choses, nominative singular chose, nominative plural choses)
- thing (miscellaneous object or concept)
Descendants[edit]
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