chauffeur

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ʃɒˈfɜː/|/ˈʃəʊfə/    美 /ʃoʊˈfɝ/|/ˈʃoʊfɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
    — He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.
  2. The driver of a fire truck.
动词 v.
  1. To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car). intransitive
    — "Old Pearson. He did gardening for us, and chauffeuring for my father. Such a dear old man - I've know him all my life."
  2. To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle. transitive

词形变化

chauffeurs plural chauffeurs present,singular,third-person chauffeuring participle,present chauffeured participle,past chauffeured past

词汇关系

衍生词
chauffeur driver chauffeuress chauffeurless chauffeurship

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥h₁éh₁ti
Proto-Italic *kalēō
Classical Latin caleō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Classical Latin faciō
Classical Latin calefaciō
Classical Latin calfaciō
Vulgar Latin *calfō
Old French chaufer
Middle French chauffer
French chauffer
French -eur
French chauffeurbor.
English chauffeur
Borrowed from French chauffeur.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥h₁éh₁ti
Proto-Italic *kalēō
Classical Latin caleō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Classical Latin faciō
Classical Latin calefaciō
Classical Latin calfaciō
Vulgar Latin *calfō
Old French chaufer
Middle French chauffer
French chauffer
French -eur
French chauffeurbor.
English chauffeur
Borrowed from French chauffeur.
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