chassis – English noun declension

English noun forms of chassis

Noun: chassis
Singularchassis
Pluralchassis

Sample Sentences

  • Coordinate term: coachwork
  • Near-synonym: undercarriage
  • The door being open, Stranleigh walked in unannounced. A two-seated runabout[…]stood by the window, where it could be viewed by passers-by. Further down the room rested a chassis, … . [1913, Robert Barr, chapter 2, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:]
  • The Winchburgh Shale Line is of 2 ft. 6 in. gauge. The surface trucks or tubs are cuboidal metal boxes mounted on unsprung four-wheeled chassis. [1958 September 26, Anthony A. Vickers, “The Winchburgh Shale Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 613:]

Nouns inflected like chassis

cement works, Old World ROM, mythopoetics, zhenniao, ichimon, seinen, sedoka, semese, sentai, senryū, senbei, whapuku, whapuka, selbri, Cinghalese, sayori, sansho, sanies, sanmai, sangza, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Borrowed from French châssis, from châsse, from Latin capsa (“case”). See: French Nouns 'châssis', Latin Nouns 'capsa'.