Middle French

Pronoun

chascun m ‎(feminine chascune, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunes)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. each one; every one

Adjective

chascun m ‎(oblique and nominative feminine singular chascune)

1. each; every

Declension

Descendants

• Middle French: chascun, chasque
  • French: chacun, chaque
• Norman: châtchun (Jersey)

Old Provençal

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; cf. also Old Catalan quiscun, modern Catalan cadascun.

Adjective

chascun m ‎(feminine singular chascuna, masculine plural chascuns, feminine plural chascunas)

1. each one; every one

Descendants

• Occitan: chascun