chalet
See also: châlet
English
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Chalet in Switzerland
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃæleɪ/
- Rhymes: -eɪ
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Noun
chalet (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, 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.
Translations
type of wooden house
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Eastern Bontoc
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃa.lɛ/
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Descendants
Further reading
- “chalet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): */ʃaˈle/*
- Rhymes: -e
Anagrams
Latin
Malay
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃale/
- Rhymes: -ale, -le, -e
Spanish

Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃaˈle/ [t͡ʃaˈle]
- Rhymes: -e
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.
Related terms
Further reading
- “chalet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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