échafaud – French noun declension

French noun forms of échafaud

Noun: échafaud
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular méchafaud
Plural méchafauds

Sample Sentences

  • Quand ma tête aura été coupée, qu’est-ce que cela me fait qu’on en coupe d’autres ? Est-ce que vraiment j’ai pu penser ces folies ? Jeter bas l’échafaud après que j’y aurai monté ! (When my head has been cut off, what do I care if others' are cut off? Could I really think such crazy thoughts? Throw down the scaffold after I'd got up!) [1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné:]

Etymology

Alteration of Old French chafaud, from Late Latin *catafalicum, from Ancient Greek κατά- (katá-) + Latin fala (“tower”). Doublet of catafalque. See: Latin Nouns 'fala'.

Verbs referencing "échafaud"

English Nouns scaffold, Russian Nouns эшафот, Romanian Nouns eșafod, Swedish Nouns schavott, Ukrainian Nouns ешафот.

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