Etymology

chasse

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Today it means: A reliquary casket. Full definition →

French chassé
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chasse · noun, verb1

  1. French · borrowed fromchassé
  2. French · borrowed fromchassé
  3. English todaychasse

Borrowed from French chassé.

chasse · noun2

  1. Old French · derived fromchasse
  2. Middle English · inherited fromchasse
  3. English todaychasse

From Middle English chasse, variant of case, from Old French chasse. Doublet of case, cash, and chase.

Words from the same roots

Frenchchassé all →

chasesashaychassé

Old Frenchchasse all →

chase

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.