chaire
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
chaire (plural chaires)
- Obsolete spelling of chair
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “[Apophthegm 213]”, in Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], OCLC 771110810, page 234:
- [T]he poſture of the Confeſſant and the Prieſt in Confeſsion: which is, that the Confeſſant kneeles downe before the Prieſt ſitting in a raiſed chaire aboue him.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French chaire, from Old French chaiere, chaere, inherited from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra). Doublet of cathèdre and chaise.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
chaire f (plural chaires)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “chaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
chaire
- Alternative form of chayer
Middle FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French chaiere, from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra).
NounEdit
chaire f (plural chaires)
- chair (item of furniture)
- 1552, François Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre:
- Apportez moy a ce bout de table une chaire.
- Bring me a chair to the end of this table.
DescendantsEdit
Old IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
chaire
- Lenited form of caire.