cahier
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French cahier. Doublet of quire.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cahier (plural cahiers)
- A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; especially one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.
- A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cahier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cahier n or m (plural cahiers, diminutive cahiertje n)
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French quaer, quaïer, from Latin quaternus. Doublet of caserne, from Old Occitan, and quaterne, a later borrowing from Latin. See also the old diminutive carnet.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cahier m (plural cahiers)
- notebook, exercise book
- quire (clarification of this definition is needed)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Dutch: cahier
- → English: cahier
- → Esperanto: kajero
- → Haitian Creole: kaye
- → Polish: kajet
- → Romanian: caiet
Further reading edit
- “cahier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.