chaire
Middle French
noun
Definitions
- chair item of furniture
Etymology
Inherited from Old French chaiere inherited from Latin cathedra (seat, chair, armchair) derived from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (chair of a teacher, throne).
Origin
Ancient Greek
καθέδρα
Gloss
chair of a teacher, throne
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cathedra English
- cathedral English
- cathedratic English
- chaise English
- *cathēgra Latin
- cathedra Latin
- cathedralis Latin
- cathegra Latin
- cathégra Latin
- cathēdra Latin
- cathēdrālem Latin
- ecclesia Latin
- ecclēsia cathedrālis Latin
- cattedra Italian
- sjees Dutch, Flemish
- cathèdre French
- chaire French
- chaise French
- cátedra Spanish, Castilian
- καθέδρα Ancient Greek
- καθέδρᾱ Ancient Greek
- κατά Ancient Greek
- κᾰθέδρᾱ Ancient Greek
- ἕδρα Ancient Greek
- cátedra Portuguese
- chayer Middle English
- chayer, cheire, chaere Middle English
- chaiere Old French
- katedro Esperanto
- càtedra Catalan, Valencian
- catedră Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- cadair Welsh
- katedro Ido
- cathaír Old Irish
- cheez Norman
- qùaire Norman
- tchaire Norman
- tchaîse Norman
- קתדרלה Hebrew (modern)
- cadeira Old Portuguese
- Scheese Alemannic German
- cadera Old Occitan
- carega Venetian
- kador Cornish
- chèz Haitian, Haitian Creole
- caïèle Picard
- chèz Antillean Creole
- cadrega Lombard
- cadoer Middle Breton