mitaine

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French mitaine.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mitaine f (plural mitaines)

1. fingerless glove

French

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /mi.tɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun

mitaine f (plural mitaines)

1. fingerless glove
2. (Canada) mitten
3. (Canada, dated) a protestant church or religious office

Derived terms

• croque-mitaine

Descendants

• → Dutch: mitaine
• → Russian: мите́нка (miténka)

Further reading

• “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

Etymology

From Old French mitaine, possibly from mite (“pet name for a cat”) (see the French entry above).

Noun

mitaine f (plural mitaines)

1. (Jersey) mitten

Synonyms

• miton