шоссе
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Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from French chaussée, derived from Latin calciāta.
Pronunciation
Noun
шоссе́ • (šossɛ́) n inan (indeclinable, relational adjective шоссе́йный)
- highway
- Synonyms: автоба́н f (avtobán), автомагистра́ль f (avtomagistrálʹ), автостра́да f (avtostráda), доро́га f (doróga), магистра́ль f (magistrálʹ), тра́сса f (trássa)
- 1877, Лев Толстой , “Часть II. Глава XXIV”, in Анна Каренина; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., Anna Karenina, 1901:
- Он вы́шел на шоссе́ и напра́вился, осторо́жно ступа́я по гря́зи, к свое́й коля́ске.
- On výšel na šossé i naprávilsja, ostoróžno stupája po grjázi, k svojéj koljáske.
- He came out on to the high road and walked, picking his way carefully through the mud, to his carriage.
Derived terms
- шоссе́йник m (šossɛ́jnik)
Descendants
- → Armenian: շոսսե (šosse), շոշ (šoš) — colloquial, dialectal
- → Azerbaijani: şose
- → Georgian: შოსე (šose)
- → Uzbek: shosse
- → Yiddish: שאָסיי (shosey)
See also
- шла Са́ша по шоссе́ и соса́ла су́шку (šla Sáša po šossɛ́ i sosála súšku) (tongue-twister)
Further reading
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “шоссе”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.