ascenseur

French

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *skend-der.

Latin scandō

Latin ascendō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin ascēnsorlbor.

French ascenseur

Learned borrowing from Latin ascēnsor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɑ̃.sœʁ/

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• Rhymes: -œʁ

Noun

ascenseur m (plural ascenseurs)

1. lift, elevator
2. scroll bar

Derived terms

• ascenseur spatial
• renvoyer l'ascenseur

Descendants

• → Arabic:
  • Hijazi Arabic: أصنصير (ʔaṣanṣēr)
  • Moroccan Arabic: سنسور (sansūr), سنسير (sansīr)
  • South Levantine Arabic: أصنصير (ʔaṣanṣēr), أسنسير (ʔasansēr), أسنسل (ʔasansel)
• → Bulgarian: асансьор (asansjor)
• → Greek: ασανσέρ n (asansér, “lift”)
• → Iranian Persian: آسانسور (âsânsor)
• → Khmer: អាស់សង់ស័រ (ʼahsɑngsɔə)
• → Ottoman Turkish: آسانسور (asansör)
  • Turkish: asansör
    • → Northern Kurdish: asansor
    • → Ladino: asansor
• → Romanian: ascensor
• → Spanish: ascensor

Further reading

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