chaîne
French
Alternative forms
- chaine (post-1990 spelling)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French chaisne, from Old French chaene, chaiene, caiene, inherited from Latin catēna. Doublet of cadène and catène. The long vowel derives from the Old French hiatus; by analogy the length was expressed with a silent -s- in Middle French, which was then replaced with the circumflex.
Pronunciation
Noun
chaîne f (plural chaînes)
- chain
- La chaîne est trop courte, nous n’y arriverons pas.
- The chain is too short, we aren't reaching it.
- (television) channel
- Pouvez-vous changer de chaîne, s’il vous plaît?
- Can you change the channel, please?
- 2015 November 21, “« Storage Wars », une chasse au trésor bien artificielle”, in Le Monde:
- En janvier, 6ter a été la première chaîne à diffuser le format original de « Storage Wars » qui se déroule en Californie et qui a réuni 215 000 téléspectateurs lors de la première diffusion, le 3 janvier, en deuxième partie de soirée.
- In January, 6ter was the first channel to broadcast the original format of Storage Wars, which takes place in California and attracted 215,000 viewers for the first broadcast on January 3 during the prime-time slot.
- (textiles) warp
- (music) hi-fi or stereo system
- (computer science) character string
Derived terms
Related terms
Verb
chaîne
- inflection of chaîner:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
See also
Further reading
- “chaîne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French chaine, chaene (“chain”), from Latin catēna (“chain”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to braid, twist; hut, shed”).
Pronunciation
- (colloquial) IPA(key): /ʃeːn/
Audio (file)
Derived terms
- chaîne d'èrmuage (“property chain”)
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