Chaldée

See also: chaldee and Chaldee

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kal.de/

Etymology 1

From Middle French Chaldee, from Latin Chaldaea, from Ancient Greek Χαλδαία (Khaldaía).

Proper noun

Chaldée f

  1. (historical) Chaldea (an ancient geographic region of West Asia, in the southern portion of Babylonia in modern eastern Iraq and southwestern Iran, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used to refer to the whole of the Mesopotamian plain)

Etymology 2

From Middle French Chaldee, from Latin chaldaeus, from Ancient Greek Χαλδαῖος (Khaldaîos).

Noun

Chaldée m or f by sense (plural Chaldées)

  1. (historical) Chaldean
    Synonyms: Chaldéen m, Chaldéenne f
    • 1853, Les peuples primitifs de la race de Iafète‎[1], page 41:
      […] les Chaldées entrèrent en Babylonie […]
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