chêne

Inherited from Middle French chesne, from Old French chesne, chaisne, chasne, from Vulgar Latin *cassanus (attested in Medieval Latin as casnus), probably from Gaulish cassanos. Some Old French forms possibly influenced by fraisne, fresne (cf. modern frêne). Compare Occitan casse, Franco-Provençal châno. See also Spanish quejigo, Galician caxigo, Aragonese caixico.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛn/, /ʃɛːn/

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• Homophones: chaîne, chaînent, chaînes, chênes

chêne m (plural chênes)

1. oak (tree), oak tree

   le chêne de mon jardin ― the oak in my garden

   un chêne millénaire ― a thousand-year-old oak

   la fable du chêne et du roseau ― the fable of the oak and the reed

2. oak (wood)

   du chêne ― (some) oak

   le chêne de ce lit ― the oak of this bed

   un chêne moyen ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) (middle-aged wood, with intermediate color, young woods are more clear)

   une table en chêne, de chêne ― an oak table

   une table faite avec du chêne ― a table made from oak

• Duchesne

• “chêne” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “chêne” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “chêne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.