cascadeur

French

Etymology

From cascade +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kas.ka.dœʁ/

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

cascadeur m (plural cascadeurs, feminine cascadeuse)

1. (cinematography, film) stuntman, stuntperson (one who performs stunts)

Descendants

• → Czech: kaskadér
• → Hungarian: kaszkadőr
• → Dutch: cascadeur
• → Greek: κασκαντέρ (kaskantér)
• → Polish: kaskader
• → Romanian: cascador
• → Russian: каскадёр (kaskadjór)
  • → Kazakh: каскадёр (kaskader)

Further reading

• cascadeur on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “cascadeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.