mitaine
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Noun
[edit]mitaine f (plural mitaines)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French mite, miste (“playful name for cat”) + -aine. See also minet (“cat”) and Provençal mino (“female cat”), both of expressive origin.
Sense 3 is borrowed from English meeting; cf. the sound change in domplaine (“dumpling”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]mitaine f (plural mitaines)
- fingerless glove
- (Canada) mitten
- (Canada, dated) a protestant church or religious office
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mitaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “mitten”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French mitaine, possibly from mite (“pet name for a cat”) (see the French entry above).
Noun
[edit]mitaine f (plural mitaines)
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