fauteuil

common noun

Syllable Decomposition

fauteuil

from the Frankish faldistôl "folding seat", which gives the Old French (12th century) faldestoed; (1165-70) faudestuel (Chrétien de Troyes); (13th century) faudestueil; (1589) fauteuil (E. Bonnaffé, inventory of the furniture of Catherine de Médicis). See falten Stuhl in German for modern equivalents of the compound word.

Definitions

meubles

Plural

fauteuils

Translations

  • germangerman:Sessel
  • englishenglish:armchair
  • danishdanish:lænestol
  • spanishspanish:butaca
  • finnishfinnish:nojatuoli
  • italianitalian:poltrona
  • dutchdutch:fauteuil
  • portugueseportuguese:poltrona
  • russianrussian:кресло
  • swedishswedish:länstol
  • turkishturkish:koltuk