chascun

== Middle French == === Etymology === From Old French chascun. === Pronoun === chascun m (feminine chascune, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunes) each one; every one Ceste oraison dicte par quatre foys, & autant par nous taisiblement murmurée, chascun pour se purger se lava les mains d’eau de fontaine vive (L'Arcadie-Trad-Massin, published 1544, Paris) We repeated this four times under our breaths; then each one of us cleansed our hands in the water from the fountain. === Adjective === chascun m (feminine singular chascune, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunes) each; every ==== Descendants ==== French: chacun == Old French == === Alternative forms === chescun === Etymology === From Vulgar Latin *cascunum, *casquunum, from a crossing of quisque unum with *catunum < cata unum. Latin cata was a borrowing from Ancient Greek κατά (katá). The variant Old French forms chaün, cheün, and earlier *cadhun (first attested in 842 in the Serments de Strasbourg as cadhuna) derive directly from *catunum. === Pronoun === chascun m (feminine chascune, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunes) each one; every one === Adjective === chascun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular chascune) each; every ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: chascun, chasque French: chacun, chaque Norman: châtchun (Jersey) == Old Occitan == === Alternative forms === cascun chascu === Etymology === From Vulgar Latin *cascunum, *casquunum, from a crossing of quisque unum with *catunum < cata unum. Latin cata derives from Ancient Greek κατά (katá). Compare Old French chascun; compare also Old Catalan quiscun, modern Catalan cadascun. === Adjective === chascun m (feminine singular chascuna, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunas) each one; every one ==== Descendants ==== Occitan: chascun