gantelet
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
gantelet m (plural gantelets)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “gantelet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
First known attestation in the late 13th century in the plural gantelés. From gant + -elet (no evidence of an intermediate *gantel).
Noun
gantelet oblique singular, m (oblique plural gantelez or ganteletz, nominative singular gantelez or ganteletz, nominative plural gantelet)
- gauntlet (armored glove)
Descendants
- French: gauntlet, gantlet
- → Middle English: gauntelett, gantelett, gantlett, gawntlet, gantlet
- English: gauntlet
- → Spanish: guantelete
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (gantelet, supplement)