câble

See also: cable and câblé

French

Etymology

From cable, an Old Northern French (i.e. Old Norman or Picard) variant of chable, cheable, chaable, from Vulgar Latin *caplum, contracted form of Late Latin capulum, from Latin capiō.

The Norman-Picard form, used primarily in a maritime sense, coexisted with the Francien dialect forms until replacing them by the 18th century. The Old French forms cheable and chaable were crossed with or influenced by the separate word chaable (“catapult”), from a Vulgar Latin *cadabulum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kabl/ ~ /kɑbl/

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Noun

câble m (plural câbles)

1. cable
2. Synonym of câblogramme (“cable”) (cablegram)

Derived terms

• câble coaxial
• câbler
• câblo-
• péter un câble
• télévision par câble

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: cable
• → English: cable
• → Spanish: cable
  • → Tagalog: kable
• → Esperanto: kablo
• → Scottish Gaelic: càball
• → Galician: cable
• → Dutch: kabel
• → Romanian: cablu
• → Slovak: kábel
• → Swedish: kabel
• → Turkish: kablo

Verb

câble

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

Further reading

• “câble” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “câble” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
• “câble” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “câble” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “câble” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “câble”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.