Etymograph

English

chausse

Chausse comes from Middle French chausse ‘stocking, cloth covering the leg up to the thigh’, from Latin calceus ‘shoe’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *klHk(ᵂ)-(n)-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*klHk(ᵂ)-(n)-1ᵂuncertain
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalx2‘heel’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalceus3‘shoe’
  4. Early Medieval Latinmoderncalcea3
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400chauce4‘stocking, hose’
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600chausse5‘stocking, cloth covering the leg up to the thigh’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1907chausse5

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin calx
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin calceus
  3. 3 Wiktionary, Old French chauce
  4. 4 Wiktionary, Middle French chausse
  5. 5 Wiktionary, English chausse
  6. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1907, British Museum, Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities: “As the period advanced, the legs were covered with…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*klHk(ᵂ)-(n)-Wiktionary, Latin calxᵂuncertain
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalxWiktionary, Latin calceus‘heel’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalceusWiktionary, Old French chauce‘shoe’
  4. Early Medieval LatinmoderncalceaWiktionary, Old French chauce
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400chauceWiktionary, Middle French chausse‘stocking, hose’
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600chausseWiktionary, English chausse‘stocking, cloth covering the leg up to the thigh’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1907chausseWiktionary, English chausse. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1907, British Museum, Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities: “As the period advanced, the legs were covered with…”

Linked words

through Latin calx ‘heel’

calcium, calculus, quilt, chalk, counterpoint, calcite, recalcitrant, causeway, calcareous, inculcate, caulk, 32 more

through Early Medieval Latin calcea

calzone, 1 more

Today it means

noun Armor for the legs, usually made of mail, either covering the entire leg from foot to thigh, or variously covering only the thigh or only the calf and foot, with the chausson covering the other half of the leg.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “chausse”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin calx, Latin calceus, Old French chauce, Middle French chausse. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *klHk(ᵂ)-(n)- / chausse

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