Noun: cheptel
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cheptel |
| Plural m | cheptels |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cheptel
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Alteration (based on the Latin source) of Old French chetel, itself an alteration (after chef (“important”)) of chatel, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin capitāle (in the sense of “head of cattle”), substantivization of Latin capitālis. Doublet of capital. Cognate with English cattle (from Old Northern French) and chattel (from common Old French). See: Latin Nouns '
capitālis', English Nouns '
cattle'.
Verbs referencing "cheptel"
English Nouns
cattle, Romanian Nouns
șeptel.
Translations