chenu

Inherited from Old French chenu, inherited from Late Latin cānūtus, from Latin cānus.

• IPA^(key): /ʃə.ny/

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chenu (feminine chenue, masculine plural chenus, feminine plural chenues)

1. hoary, snow-capped
2. grey-haired, grey-headed
3. elderly

• chenument

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

From Late Latin cānūtus, from Latin cānus.

chenu m (oblique and nominative feminine singular chenue)

1. old; aged

chenu oblique singular, m (oblique plural chenus, nominative singular chenus, nominative plural chenu)

1. old person
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Et tuit li juene et li chenu
     A une feste sont venu[.]

     And all the young and old,
     Came to a feast.

• French: chenu

chenu

1. ki class_(VII) inflected form of -enu