chaussée

See also: Chaussee

English

Etymology

From French chaussée.

Noun

chaussée (plural chaussées)

1. Level of soil.
   • 1863, unknown, The Edinburgh Review, Volume CXVII., page #160:

     Its other angles are at Quatre Bras and Sombreffe, where each of the two roads from Charleroi respectively falls upon the chaussée that forms the base of this triangle.

References

• chaussée in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.se/

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Etymology 1

From Old French chauciee, chaucie, from Vulgar Latin *calciāta; there is dispute as to whether this is from Latin calx (“lime”) or its homonym, calx (“heel”) (through the verb calciāre (“stamp, tread on”)). Compare English causeway.

Noun

chaussée f (plural chaussées)

1. surface (of road)
2. causeway
3. (Belgium) highway. Belgian roads which are named in Dutch as steenweg (e.g. Waversesteenweg) are named in Belgian French as chaussée (e.g. Chaussée de Wavre)

Derived terms

• rez-de-chaussée

Descendants

• → English: chaussée
• → Esperanto: ŝoseo
• → German: Chaussee
  • → Russian: шоссе́ (šossé)
    • → Armenian: շոսսե (šosse), շոշ (šoš)
    • → Azerbaijani: şose
    • → Georgian: შოსე (šose)
    • → Uzbek: shosse
    • → Yiddish: שאָסיי‎ (shosey)
• → Northern Kurdish: şose
• → Polish: szosa
• → Romanian: șosea
• → Ottoman Turkish: شوسه‎ (şose)
  • → Turkish: şose

Etymology 2

Participle

chaussée f sg

1. feminine singular of the past participle of chausser

Further reading

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