chantier

common noun

Syllable Decomposition

chantier

From the Latin cantherius (a worn-out horse, a rafter), see also chevalet for another word that passed from the equestrian domain to the technical domain with the meaning of 'supporting wood'. At the end of the seventeenth century, chantier takes the meaning of 'outdoor workshop', it is still a neological sense in the eighteenth century and the encyclopedia specifies: 'to be on the chantier', meaning to work currently, see bûcher for another word that passed from the meaning of 'wood' to that of 'to work'.

Definitions

marine
construction
marine
police

Plural

chantiers

Translations

  • germangerman:Baustelle
  • englishenglish:mess
  • finnishfinnish:työmaa
  • dutchdutch:bouwplaats
  • portugueseportuguese:canteiro
  • swedishswedish:sätta dit
  • italianitalian:cantiere

See also

incantatoire (adj.) désenchanté (adj.) rechanter (v.) chanter (v.) chanteuse (cn.) chanteuse (adj.) chantant (adj.) chantable (adj.) incantateur (cn.) incanter (v.) enchanter (v.) chant (cn.) chantage (cn.) chanteur (cn.) déchanter (v.) désenchantement (cn.) désenchanter (v.) enchantement (cn.) enchanteur (adj.) enchanteur (cn.)