chaussée
See also: Chaussee
English
Etymology
From French chaussée.
Noun
chaussée (plural chaussées)
- Level of soil.
- 1863, unknown, The Edinburgh Review, Volume CXVII., page #160:
- Its other angles are at Quatre Bras and Sombreffe, where each of the two roads from Charleroi respectively falls upon the chaussée that forms the base of this triangle.
- 1863, unknown, The Edinburgh Review, Volume CXVII., page #160:
References
- chaussée in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃo.se/
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Etymology 1
From Old French chauciee, chaucie, from Vulgar Latin *calciāta; there is dispute as to whether this is from Latin calx (“lime”) or its homonym, calx (“heel”) (through the verb calciāre (“stamp, tread on”)). Compare English causeway.
Noun
chaussée f (plural chaussées)
- surface (of road)
- causeway
- (Belgium) highway. Belgian roads which are named in Dutch as steenweg (e.g. Waversesteenweg) are named in Belgian French as chaussée (e.g. Chaussée de Wavre)
Derived terms
- rez-de-chaussée
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: şose
- → English: chaussée
- → Esperanto: ŝoseo
- → German: Chaussee
- → Russian: шоссе́ (šossé)
- → Armenian: շոսսե (šosse), (colloquial) շոշ (šoš)
- → Uzbek: shosse
- → Yiddish: שאָסיי (shosey)
- → Russian: шоссе́ (šossé)
- → Northern Kurdish: şose
- → Polish: szosa
- → Romanian: șosea
- → Turkish: şose
Participle
chaussée f sg
- feminine singular of the past participle of chausser
Further reading
- “chaussée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.