câble

From cable, an Old Northern French (i.e. Old Norman or Picard) variant of chable, cheable, chaable, from Vulgar Latin *caplum, contracted form of Late Latin capulum, from Latin capiō. The Norman-Picard form, used primarily in a maritime sense, coexisted with the Francien dialect forms until replacing them by the 18th century. The Old French forms cheable and chaable were crossed with or influenced by the separate word chaable (“catapult”), from a Vulgar Latin *cadabulum.

• IPA^(key): /kɑbl/

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câble m (plural câbles)

1. cable

câble

1. first-person singular present indicative of câbler
2. third-person singular present indicative of câbler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of câbler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of câbler
5. second-person singular imperative of câbler

• “câble” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).