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Chaldée

/kal.de/

proper noun/kal.de/

Chaldea (an ancient geographic region of West Asia, in the southern portion of Babylonia in modern eastern Iraq and southwestern Iran, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used to refer to the whole of the Mesopotamian plain)

From Middle French Chaldee, from Latin Chaldaea, from Ancient Greek Χαλδαία (Khaldaía).

noun, masculine/feminine/kal.de/plural: Chaldées

Chaldean

[…] les Chaldées entrèrent en Babylonie […]

Synonyms: Chaldéen, Chaldéenne

From Middle French Chaldee, from Latin chaldaeus, from Ancient Greek Χαλδαῖος (Khaldaîos).