English Explanatory Dictionary

sous-chef

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The chef underneath the head chef in the chef's hierarchy.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sous-chef.wav

Word forms

sous-chef sous-chefs

Etymology

From French sous-chef. Compare Italian sotto capo, which was calqued into English as underboss. Perhaps there was ultimately an unattested term *subcaput in Late Latin, with a variant *subciput.

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