cahier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cahier. Doublet of quire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɪˈjeɪ/

Noun

cahier (plural cahiers)

1. A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; especially one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.
2. A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cahier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Archie, Raiche, Raîche, achier, archei, archie, arheic, eriach

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cahier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaːˈjeː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ca‧hier
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

cahier n or m (plural cahiers, diminutive cahiertje n)

1. notebook, writing pad
2. folder
3. magazine, proceeding, journal

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French quaer, quaïer, from Latin quaternus. Doublet of caserne, from Old Occitan, and quaterne, a later borrowing from Latin. See also the old diminutive carnet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.je/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophone: cailler

Noun

cahier m (plural cahiers)

1. notebook, exercise book
2. quire (clarification of this definition is needed)

Derived terms

• cahier de textes
• cahier des charges

Descendants

• → Dutch: cahier
• → English: cahier
• → Esperanto: kajero
• → Haitian Creole: kaye
• → Polish: kajet
• → Romanian: caiet

Further reading

• “cahier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• chaire, chiera