chascun

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French chascun.

Pronoun

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chascun m (feminine chascune, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunes)

  1. each one; every one
    • Ceste oraison dicte par quatre foys, & autant par nous taisiblement murmurée, chascun pour se purger se lava les mains d’eau de fontaine vive (L'Arcadie-Trad-Massin, published 1544, Paris)
      We repeated this four times under our breaths; then each one of us cleansed our hands in the water from the fountain.

Adjective

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chascun m (feminine singular chascune, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunes)

  1. each; every

Descendants

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  • French: chacun

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *cascunum, *casquunum, from a crossing of quisque unum with *catunum < cata unum. Latin cata was a borrowing from Ancient Greek κατά (katá). The variant Old French forms chaün, cheün, and earlier *cadhun (first attested in 842 in the Serments de Strasbourg as cadhuna) derive directly from *catunum.

Pronoun

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chascun m (feminine chascune, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunes)

  1. each one; every one

Adjective

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chascun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular chascune)

  1. each; every

Declension

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Descendants

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Old Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *cascunum, *casquunum, from a crossing of quisque unum with *catunum < cata unum. Latin cata derives from Ancient Greek κατά (katá). Compare Old French chascun; compare also Old Catalan quiscun, modern Catalan cadascun.

Adjective

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chascun m (feminine singular chascuna, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunas)

  1. each one; every one

Descendants

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