chascun
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French chascun.
Pronoun
chascun m (feminine chascune, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunes)
- each one; every one
- Ceste oraison dicte par quatre foys, & autant par nous taisiblement murmurée, chascun pour se purger se lava les mains d’eau de fontaine vive (L'Arcadie-Trad-Massin, published 1544, Paris)
- We repeated this four times under our breaths; then each one of us cleansed our hands in the water from the fountain.
- Ceste oraison dicte par quatre foys, & autant par nous taisiblement murmurée, chascun pour se purger se lava les mains d’eau de fontaine vive (L'Arcadie-Trad-Massin, published 1544, Paris)
Adjective
chascun m (feminine singular chascune, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunes)
- each; every
Descendants
- French: chacun
Old French
Alternative forms
- chescun
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *cascunum, *casquunum, from a crossing of quisque unum with *catunum < cata unum. Latin cata was a borrowing from Ancient Greek κατά (katá). The variant Old French forms chaün, cheün, and earlier *cadhun (first attested in 842 in the Serments de Strasbourg as cadhuna) derive directly from *catunum.
Pronoun
chascun m (feminine chascune, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunes)
- each one; every one
Adjective
chascun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular chascune)
- each; every
Declension
Number | Case | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Subject | chascuns | chascune | chascun |
Oblique | chascun | |||
Plural | Subject | chascun | chascunes | |
Oblique | chascuns |
Descendants
- Middle French: chascun, chasque
- French: chacun, chaque
- Norman: châtchun (Jersey)
Old Occitan
Alternative forms
- cascun
- chascu
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *cascunum, *casquunum, from a crossing of quisque unum with *catunum < cata unum. Latin cata derives from Ancient Greek κατά (katá). Compare Old French chascun; compare also Old Catalan quiscun, modern Catalan cadascun.
Adjective
chascun m (feminine singular chascuna, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunas)
- each one; every one
Descendants
- Occitan: chascun