chasse

Borrowed from French chassé.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑˈseɪ/, /ʃəˈseɪ/, /ʃæˈseɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

chasse (plural chasses)

1. Alternative spelling of chassé

chasse (third-person singular simple present chasses, present participle chasseing, simple past and past participle chassed or chasseed)

1. Alternative spelling of chassé

• IPA^(key): /ʃæs/, /ʃɑːs/
• Rhymes: -æs, -ɑːs

chasse (plural chasses)

1. Ellipsis of chasse-café.

From Middle English chasse, variant of case, from Old French chasse. Doublet of case, cash, and chase.

• IPA^(key): /ʃæs/
• Rhymes: -æs

chasse (plural chasses)

1. A reliquary casket.

• Sachse, cashes, chases

Inherited from Middle French chasse, from Old French chace, deverbal of chacier.

• IPA^(key): /ʃas/

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• Homophones: chassent, chasses (general), châsse, châsses (one pronunciation)

chasse f (plural chasses)

1. hunt, hunting

   chasse à l’homme ― manhunt

   chasse au trésor ― treasure hunt

   chasse aux sorcières ― witch hunt

• Can be followed by a prepositional phrase introduced by à to indicate the object of the hunt.

chasse

1. inflection of chasser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• châsse

• “chasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• saches, séchas

• casse, case, quase (northern)

From Late Latin capsa, from Classical Latin capsus.

• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃasə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈʃasə/

chasse oblique singular, f (oblique plural chasses, nominative singular chasse, nominative plural chasses)

1. chest; trunk (large container)

• malle

• French: châsse
  • → English: chase
• → Middle English: chasse
  • English: chasse