It depends by the age: beefy Middlw-Age buildings are "castles" or "château forts"", while more modern ones, without military needs, are "manors".or "palaces".
The most of the "Château" on the labels of French wines are just huge farms, however.
if you look at how Old French and French orthography changed, it's more evident: c sometimes became a softened ch; as was shortened as â (and es -> ê) when printing was invented; -al/-el became pluralised as -aux/-eux, which eventually led to singulars like -eau
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Matthew Dockrey • • •It depends by the age: beefy Middlw-Age buildings are "castles" or "château forts"", while more modern ones, without military needs, are "manors".or "palaces".
The most of the "Château" on the labels of French wines are just huge farms, however.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Matthew Dockrey • •@Matthew Dockrey it's only a castle if it's a fortified camp of a Roman legion, otherwise it's just a sparkly…
no, wait.
(I'm blaming @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua and his mention of French wines)
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classabbyamp
in reply to Matthew Dockrey • • •if you look at how Old French and French orthography changed, it's more evident: c sometimes became a softened ch; as was shortened as â (and es -> ê) when printing was invented; -al/-el became pluralised as -aux/-eux, which eventually led to singulars like -eau
so castel (OF, similar to Latin) becomes château
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