coffre
French
noun
Definitions
- chest, box
- boot UK, trunk US (luggage storage compartment of a vehicle, i.e. car)
Etymology
Derived from Old French cofre derived from Latin cophinus (basket) derived from Ancient Greek κόφινος (basket, a basket).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κόφινος
Gloss
basket, a basket
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
籠
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cophinus Latin
- Aktenkoffer German
- Koffer German
- Kofferraum German
- Kofferwort German
- cofanatura Italian
- cofano Italian
- coffrage French
- coffrer French
- кофр Russian
- cofre Spanish, Castilian
- κόφινος Ancient Greek
- koffert Norwegian Bokmål
- cofre Portuguese
- covo Portuguese
- côvão Portuguese
- kufer Polish
- koffert Norwegian Nynorsk
- cofre Middle English
- قُفَّة Arabic
- coffre, cofre Old French
- cofin Old French
- cofre Old French
- kofro Esperanto
- kofer Serbo-Croatian
- cofre Catalan, Valencian
- cove Catalan, Valencian
- covo Galician
- coffer Middle Dutch
- koferis Latvian
- côffre Norman
- куфар Bulgarian
- koffer Middle High German
- cofre Asturian
- kofer Lower Sorbian
- cofre xno
- cofin ONF.