Käfter
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German chafter (“beehive; little chamber, closet”), from Old High German chafteri (“beehive”), from Medieval Latin capistērium (“beehive”), for scaphistērium, from Ancient Greek σκαφιστήριον (skaphistḗrion).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Käfter n (strong, genitive Käfters, plural Käfter, diminutive Käfterchen n or Käfterlein n)
- (Central Germany) little chamber, closet
- 1798, Christian Ludwig Stieglitz, “Tollhaus”, in Encyklopädie der bürgerlichen Baukunst, in welcher alle Fächer dieser Kunst nach alphabetischer Ordnung abgehandelt sind, volumes 5: Schi–Z, Leipzig: Caspar Fritsch, page 276:
- Alle Käfter der Rasenden, so wie auch die Zimmer der Melancholischen müssen im Winter geheitzt werden können.
- All lunatics' closets as well as the rooms of the melancholics must allow heating in winter.
Declension
[edit]Declension of Käfter [neuter, strong]
Further reading
[edit]- “Käfter” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Käfter” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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