Noun: cauchemar
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cauchemar |
| Plural m | cauchemars |
Sample Sentences
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Coordinate term: rêve
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Je n'ai pas pu dormir hier soir parce que j'ai fait trop de cauchemars. (I couldn't sleep last night because I had too many nightmares.)
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C'était un rêve ou un cauchemar? (Was it a dream or a nightmare?)
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Il a remué toute la nuit, je crois qu'il a fait des cauchemars. (He was tossing and turning all night, I think [that] he had nightmares.)
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J'ai eu un accident ce matin! Je vais bien mais ça a été un vrai cauchemar! (I had an accident this morning! I'm okay but it was a true nightmare!)
Nouns inflected like cauchemar
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare. By surface analysis, cauque + mar. Compare Walloon tchôcmwår.
2. * First element from Old French cauche, from the verb chauchier (“to press”), from Latin calcare (“to trample, tread on”), from calx (“heel”), of uncertain origin.
3. * Second element from Frankish *marā (“evil spirit”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“malicious female spirit”), from *mer- (“to die”); related to the homograph English mare. More at mare. See: Latin Nouns '
calcare', English Nouns '
mare'.
Verbs referencing "cauchemar"
Romanian Nouns
coșmar, Bulgarian Nouns
кошмар, Russian Nouns
кошмар, Ukrainian Nouns
кошмар, Belarusan Nouns
кашмар.
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