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chief

English

Etymology

From Middle English chef, borrowed from Old French chief (leader), from Vulgar Latin capus (from which also captain, chieftain), from Latin caput (head) (English cap (head covering)), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t?i?f/
  • Rhymes: -i?f

Noun

chief (plural chiefs)

  1. A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc. [from 13th c.]
    • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 4:
      My father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a chief by both blood and custom.
    All firefighters report to the fire chief.
  2. (heraldry) The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third. [from 15th c.]
    • 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry:
      When the Chief is Charged with any figure, in blazon it is said to be "On a Chief".
  3. The principal part or top of anything.
  4. An informal term of address, sometimes ironic.
    Hey, chief.

Synonyms

  • chieftain
  • chiefess (female chief)
  • See also Thesaurus:boss

Derived terms

Pages starting with “chief”.

Related terms

  • captain
  • chef
  • chieftain

Descendants

  • ? Japanese: ??? (ch?fu)
  • ? Swahili: chifu

Translations

Adjective

chief (comparative chiefer or more chief, superlative chiefest or most chief)

  1. Primary; principal.
  2. (Scotland) Intimate, friendly.
    • 2006, James Robertson: The Testament of Gideon Mack, p 324:
      'You’re doing it because she was your friend, not because she was a parishioner, and certainly not because of the Declaratory Articles,' Macmurray said, pushing himself forward on his seat. 'Everybody knows how chief you and she were. It was an unfitting relationship for a minister while she was alive, and it is equally unfitting for you to do her a favour like this now she's dead.'

Translations

Verb

chief (third-person singular simple present chiefs, present participle chiefing, simple past and past participle chiefed)

  1. (US, slang) To smoke cannabis.
    • 2012, Marquis "Cream" Cureton, When the Smoke Clears (page 268)
      He chiefed on the bud like a pro, taking long deep hits and holding it within until he had inhaled as much of the weed smoke as he could.

See also

  • chef

Anagrams

  • cheif, fiche, fiché

Middle English

Noun

chief

  1. Alternative form of chef

Adjective

chief

  1. Alternative form of chef

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chief.

Noun

chief m (plural chiefs)

  1. head

Descendants

  • French: chef (see there for further descendants)

Old French

Alternative forms

  • cap (La Vie de Saint Léger, circa 980)
  • chef, cief

Etymology

First known attestation 881 in The Sequence of Saint Eulalia. From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t?je?f/

Noun

chief m (oblique plural chiés, nominative singular chiés, nominative plural chief)

  1. (anatomy) head
    • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
      Le chief li desarme et la face.
      He exposed his head and his face.
  2. leader, chief
  3. front (foremost side of something)

Descendants

  • Middle French: chief
    • French: chef (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: chef
  • ? Middle English: chef
    • English: chief
    • Scots: chief
  • ? Old Spanish: xefe
    • Spanish: jefe, gefe
      • ? English: jefe
      • ? Cebuano: hepe
    • ? Asturian: xefe
    • ? Galician: xefe
    • ? Portuguese: chefe

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arranger

English

Etymology

arrange +? -er

Noun

arranger (plural arrangers)

  1. One who arranges.
  2. Digital keyboard to play music with accompaniment styles.


Translations


French

Etymology

From Old French arangier

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.???.?e/

Verb

arranger

  1. to arrange
  2. (colloquial) to suit, to be convenient
    • Désolé, ça ne m'arrange pas
      Sorry, that doesn't work for me.
  3. (reflexive) to be set for
    • 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné
      Depuis l’heure où mon arrêt m’a été prononcé, combien sont morts qui s’arrangeaient pour une longue vie !
      Ever since my sentence was passed, how many who were set for a long life have died!
  4. (Louisiana) to build
    Synonym: construire
  5. (Louisiana, Cajun French) to fix

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written arrange- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Derived terms

  • mariage arrangé

Descendants

  • ? Catalan: arranjar
  • ? German: arrangieren
  • ? Portuguese: arranjar
  • ? Romanian: aranja

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

arranger

  1. imperative of arrangere

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