chef
Middle English
/tʃeːf/
noun
Definitions
- A leader, boss, or director; a chief official; one in charge.
- A authority or source of power; something which controls.
- The main, important or foundational part of something.
- The upper or topmost portion of something.
- (heraldry) The heraldic chief.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French chief (head, leader) derived from Latin caput (head, etc, source).
Origin
Latin
caput
Gloss
head, etc, source
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
頭
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- capite English
- caput English
- caput Mundi English
- chief English
- chiefdom English
- chiefery English
- chiefess English
- chiefhood English
- chiefless English
- chiefling English
- chiefly English
- chiefness English
- chiefry English
- chiefship English
- mischief English
- subchief English
- *accapāre Latin
- *bottia Latin
- *capare Latin
- *capitina Latin
- *capum Latin
- *capāre Latin
- *cuppāre Latin
- *excapitāre Latin
- *excapitō Latin
- Reconstruction:Latin/capum Latin
- baculum Latin
- capa Latin
- capitalis Latin
- capitaneus Latin
- capitatio Latin
- capitatus Latin
- capitellum Latin
- capitergium Latin
- capitia Latin
- capitilavium Latin
- capitium Latin
- capito Latin
- capitulum Latin
- capitānea Latin
- capitāneus Latin
- capitāre Latin
- cappa Latin
- caput Latin
- occiput Latin
- praecipito Latin
- sinciput Latin
- ēricius Latin
- Kap German
- capa Italian
- caporale Italian
- capriccio Italian
- capote French
- chef French
- acabar Spanish, Castilian
- capota Spanish, Castilian
- *kauput- Proto-Indo-European
- kapp Norwegian Bokmål
- sjef Norwegian Bokmål
- caput Portuguese
- チーフ Japanese
- kapp Norwegian Nynorsk
- sjef Norwegian Nynorsk
- cabage, caboche Middle English
- chefly Middle English
- myschef Middle English
- myscheven Middle English
- myschevous Middle English
- caboce Old French
- chanfrain Old French
- chief Old French
- covrechief Old French
- meschief Old French
- ĉef- Esperanto
- chef Norman
- chief Middle French
- chifu Swahili
- acabar Occitan
- cabussar Occitan
- cap Occitan
- *kaput Proto-Italic
- acabar Asturian
- xefe Old Spanish
- capa Sicilian
- capitolie xno
- cif Hausa
- capa Tarantino