chalet
English
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”).
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editchalet (plural chalets)
- An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves. [from late 18th c.]
- 2013 January, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 1, page 62:
- Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
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editchalet
French
editEtymology
editSwiss French, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”), from Old Franco-Provençal chaslet, diminutive of chasel (“farmhouse”), from Late Latin casalis (“house-like, house-related”), from Latin casa (“house”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchalet m (plural chalets)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “chalet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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editItalian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French chalet.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchalet m (invariable)
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editchalet
Malay
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editchalet
- chalet (wooden house)
Spanish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French chalet.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchalet m (plural chalets)
Usage notes
editAccording to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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edit- “chalet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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