bâtard

French

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Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French bastard (“child of a nobleman by a woman other than his wife”), from Medieval Latin bastardus (“illegitimate child”), of Germanic origin, from West Germanic base *bāst-, *bōst- ("marriage") (taken as signifying the offspring of a polygynous marriage to a woman of lower status, a pagan tradition not sanctioned by the church), from Proto-Germanic *banstuz, *bunstuz (“a bond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhendh- (“to tie, bind”) + -ard. Cognate with Old Frisian bōst (“marriage”), Middle Dutch basture (= bast + hure, “whore, prostitute”).

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Noun

bâtard m. (plural bâtards; feminine bâtarde, plural bâtardes)

1. bastard (person born to unmarried parents)
2. (botany) hybrid plant

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