Noun: chapiteau
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | chapiteau |
| Plural m | chapiteaux |
Sample Sentences
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Du persil, du cresson, de la fougère et de mille autres végétaux communs, ils tirent des chapiteaux ou des frises d'une beauté de ligne, d'une hardiesse et d'une sûreté d'interprétation qui nous étonnent et nous émerveillent. (From parsley, watercress, ferns, and a thousand other common plants, they derive capitals and friezes of a linear beauty—of a boldness and sureness of interpretation—that astonish and amaze us.) [1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante, page 1:]
Nouns inflected like chapiteau
renouveau,
pocheteau,
berceau,
métamatériau,
ypréau,
ypreau,
chaudeau,
lanterneau,
lapineau,
bordeau,
lapereau,
bouleau,
paonneau,
bandeau,
barreau,
bardeau,
barbeau,
zoziau,
mâtineau,
colineau, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French chapitel, from Late Latin capitellum (likely a semi-learned borrowing), from Latin capitulum, ultimately from caput (“head”), whence also French chef. Doublet of cadeau and cadet, borrowings from Occitan, and caudillo, a borrowing from Spanish. See: Latin Nouns '
capitulum'.
Verbs referencing "chapiteau"
Catalan Nouns
cabdell, Asturian Nouns
chipitéu.
Translations