chalet

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See also: châlet

English

Chalet in Switzerland

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Etymology

Borrowed from French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃæleɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ
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Noun

chalet (plural chalets)

  1. An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves.
    • 2013 January, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist‎, 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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Noun

chalet

  1. eel

French

Etymology

Swiss 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”).

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Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)

  1. chalet

Descendants

  • → English: chalet
  • → Hijazi Arabic: شاليه (šalē)
  • → Portuguese: chalé
  • → Spanish: chalé, chalet

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French chalet.

Pronunciation

Noun

chalet m (invariable)

  1. chalet

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Latin

Verb

chalet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of chalō

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English chalet.

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Noun

chalet

  1. chalet (wooden house)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French chalet.

Pronunciation

Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)

  1. cottage, chalet
    Synonym: chalé

Usage notes

According 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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