chêne

common noun

Syllable Decomposition

chêne

chesne, alteration, after fresne, frêne, from the Old French chasne (1160), chaisne (1177-88), from Vulgar Latin casnus (508), borrowed from Gaulish cassanos (whence Occitan cassanh, Franco-Provençal tsâno, Occitan casse. Formation with different suffix in Aragonese with caixico, caixigo, in Spanish with quejigo ("beech oak").

Definitions

botanique

Plural

chênes

Translations

  • germangerman:Eichenholz
  • englishenglish:oak
  • arabicarabic:بلوط
  • danishdanish:eg
  • spanishspanish:roble
  • finnishfinnish:tammi
  • greekgreek:βελανιδιά
  • hebrewhebrew:אלון
  • italianitalian:legno di quercia
  • japanesejapanese:オーク材
  • dutchdutch:eikenhout
  • polishpolish:dąb
  • portugueseportuguese:carvalho
  • russianrussian:дуб
  • swedishswedish:ekvirke
  • turkishturkish:meşe

See also

chênier (cn.) quercite (cn.) chênaie (cn.) chênière (cn.)