câble

Meaning

overseas telegram

cable’s length

main drainage

mooring cable

cable length

cable television service

cable system

ligne électrique

ligne de transmission

câble électrique

fil électrique

καλώδιο

televisió per cable

halat

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Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kabl/

From cable, an Old Northern French (i.e. Old Norman or Picard) variant of chable, cheable, chaable, from Vulgar Latin *caplum, contracted form of Late Latin capulum, from Latin capiō. The Norman-Picard form, used primarily in a maritime sense, coexisted with the Francien dialect forms until replacing them by the 18th century. The Old French forms cheable and chaable were crossed with or influenced by the separate word chaable (“catapult”), from a Vulgar Latin *cadabulum.