chasse

Borrowed from French chasse.

chasse (plural chasses)

1. Alternative spelling of chassé
2. Ellipsis of chasse-café

chasse (third-person singular simple present chasses, present participle chasseing, simple past and past participle chassed)

1. Alternative spelling of chassé

Borrowed from Old French chasse.

chasse (plural chasses)

1. A reliquary casket.

• cashes, chases

From Middle French chasse, from Old French chace, deverbal of chacier.

• IPA^(key): /ʃas/

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chasse f (plural chasses)

1. hunt
2. hunting

• chasse à l'homme
• chasse au trésor
• chasse aux sorcières

chasse

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

• châsse

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

• saches, séchas

• (Old Northern French) casse, caisse, case

From Late Latin capsa, from Classical Latin capsus

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃa.sə/

chasse f (oblique plural chasses, nominative singular chasse, nominative plural chasses)

1. chest; trunk (large container)

• malle

• French: châsse