chauffer

See also: Chauffer

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔː.fə/

Etymology 1

Compare French chauffoir a kind of stove, from chauffer (“to heat”). See chafe.

Alternative forms

Noun

chauffer (plural chauffers)

  1. A small, portable stove
  2. A chafing dish
  3. (chemistry) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.

Etymology 2

Misspelling of chauffeur

Noun

chauffer (plural chauffers)

  1. Misspelling of chauffeur.

Verb

chauffer (third-person singular simple present chauffers, present participle chauffering, simple past and past participle chauffered)

  1. Misspelling of chauffeur.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 chauffer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

French

Etymology

From Middle French chauffer, from Old French chauffer, chaufer, from Vulgar Latin *cal(e)fāre, from Latin calfacere or calefacere, present active infinitive of calefaciō. Compare Occitan caufar, calfar, Catalan calfar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃo.fe/
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Verb

chauffer

  1. to heat, to warm, to warm up
  2. (slang) to tease, to entice sexually, to arouse
    Synonyms: allumer, aguicher

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

Old French

Verb

chauffer

  1. Alternative form of chaufer

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ff, *-ffs, *-fft are modified to f, s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of chauffer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive chauffer avoir chauffé
gerund en chauffant Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle chauffant
past participle chauffé
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu il nos vos il
simple
tenses		 present chauf chauffes chauffe chauffons chauffez chauffent
imperfect chauffoie, chauffeie, chauffoe, chauffeve chauffoies, chauffeies, chauffoes, chauffeves chauffoit, chauffeit, chauffot, chauffeve chauffiiens, chauffiens chauffiiez, chauffiez chauffoient, chauffeient, chauffoent, chauffevent
preterite chauffai chauffas chauffa chauffames chauffastes chaufferent
future chaufferai chaufferas chauffera chaufferons chaufferoiz, chauffereiz, chaufferez chaufferont
conditional chaufferoie, chauffereie chaufferoies, chauffereies chaufferoit, chauffereit chaufferiiens, chaufferiens chaufferiiez, chaufferiez chaufferoient, chauffereient
compound
tenses		 present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
simple
tenses		 present chauf chaus chaut chauffons chauffez chauffent
imperfect chauffasse chauffasses chauffast chauffissons, chauffissiens chauffissoiz, chauffissez, chauffissiez chauffassent
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— chauffe — chauffons chauffez —
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