cheminée
French
noun
Definitions
- a chimney
- a fireplace or hearth
- a vertical vent, exhaust or gallery
- a hole at the centre of some models of parachute
- the glass tube protecting the flame of a kerosene or similar wick lamp
- (technology) a vertical vacuum forming in a gasifier
- (welding) a type of welding fault
- (geology) the exhaust of a volcano
- (geology) a vertical mineral vein
- (theatre) large pipe containing ropes that serves to control theater backdrops
Etymology
Inherited from Old French cheminee inherited from Latin caminata, [camera] camīnāta, camīnus (furnace) derived from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (furnace).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κάμῑνος
Gloss
furnace
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- chimenea English
- caminata, [camera] camīnāta Latin
- caminus Latin
- camināta Latin
- camīnus Latin
- camīnāta Latin
- Cheminée German
- Kamin German
- camino Italian
- ciminiera Italian
- chimenea Spanish, Castilian
- κάμινος Ancient Greek
- κάμῑνος Ancient Greek
- chaminé Portuguese
- komnata Polish
- chymeney Middle English
- cheminee Old French
- kamin Serbo-Croatian
- xemeneia Catalan, Valencian
- chaminea Galician
- cheminea Galician
- κάμινος Greek (modern)
- kemîn Old High German
- şömine Turkish
- cheunm'née Norman
- chim'naïe Norman
- chimnee Norman
- комин Bulgarian
- cjamin Friulian
- комната Old East Slavic
- camin Venetian
- camain Dalmatian
- cameîn Istriot
- caminu Corsican