chanterelle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chanterelle, from New Latin cantharellus, diminutive of Latin cantharus (“drinking vessel”), from Ancient Greek κάνθαρος (kántharos). Probably of Pre-Greek origin, cognate with Akkadian 𒃶𒁺𒊒𒌑 (/⁠kanduru⁠/, “kind of vessel”), from Sumerian 𒄑𒃶𒉡𒌉 (/⁠gannu-tur⁠/, “small vessel; potstand”, literally “little vessel, container, holder”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæntəɹɛl/, /ʃɒntəˈɹɛl/

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Noun

chanterelle (plural chanterelles)

1. (mycology) A widely distributed edible mushroom, Cantharellus cibarius, being yellow and trumpet-shaped; or any similar mushroom of the genera Cantharellus, Polyozellus or Gomphus, not all of which are edible.
   • 1979, Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber, Vintage, published 2006, page 98:

     Even the homely wood blewits, that you cook like tripe, with milk and onions, and the egg-yolk yellow chanterelle with its fan-vaulting and faint smell of apricots, all spring up overnight like bubbles of earth, unsustained by nature, existing in a void.

2. (music) The highest string of the violin or similar instrument.
   • 2003, Paul Bowles, edited by Timothy Mangan and Irene Herrmann, Paul Bowles on Music, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 123:

     There were hushed moments of complete beauty when the melody moved out and hung above the chanterelle like a hummingbird poised over a flower.

Synonyms

• (mushroom): girolle

Derived terms

• black chanterelle
• false chanterelle
• funnel chanterelle

Translations

Cantharellus cibarius

• Afrikaans: kantarel, dooierswam
• Bavarian: oaschwammerl
• Bulgarian: пачи крак (pači krak)
• Catalan: rossinyol (ca) m, picornell m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雞油菇／鸡油菇 (jīyóugū)

• Czech: liška obecná (cs) f
• Danish: kantarel
• Dutch: cantharel (nl) m, hanenkam (nl) m
• Esperanto: kantarelo
• Estonian: harilik kukeseen, kukeseen (et)
• Faroese: bikarsoppur m
• Finnish: kantarelli (fi), keltavahvero (fi)
• French: girolle (fr) f
• Galician: cantarelo (gl) m
• German: Pfifferling (de) m, Eierschwammerl (de) n
• Hungarian: sárga rókagomba (hu)
• Icelandic: kantarella f
• Ingrian: petonsääri
• Irish: cantarnaid f
• Italian: finferlo (it) m, finferla f, galletto (it) m, cantarello giallo m
• Japanese: 杏茸 (anzutake)
• Korean: 꾀꼬리버섯 (kkoekkoribeoseot)
• Latvian: gailene (lv) f
• Lithuanian: voveraitė f
• Lombard: finferl m, gallett m
• Macedonian: лиси́чарка f (lisíčarka)
• Norwegian: kantarell (no) m
• Piedmontese: garitola f
• Polish: kurka (pl) f, pieprznik (pl) m
• Portuguese: cantarelo (pt) m, cantarela (pt) f
• Russian: лиси́чка (ru) f (lisíčka)
• Slovak: kuriatko n
• Slovene: lisička (sl) f
• Spanish: chantarela f, rebozuelo m, anacate m
• Swedish: kantarell (sv) c
• Turkish: yumurta mantarı, tavuk mantarı, sarıkız mantarı, horozmantarı (tr)
• Ukrainian: лиси́чка f (lysýčka)
• Venetan: fìnferlo (vec) m

Further reading

• chanterelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃.tʁɛl/

Etymology 1

From the genus name, New Latin Cantharellus, from Latin cantharus (“drinking vessel”).

Noun

chanterelle f (plural chanterelles)

1. (mycology) chanterelle

   Synonym: girolle

Descendants

• → English: chanterelle
• → Finnish: kantarelli

Etymology 2

From chanter +‎ -elle.

Noun

chanterelle f (plural chanterelles)

1. (music) chanterelle (highest string of the violin or similar instrument)

Further reading

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