gaiter
See also: Gaiter
English
hiking gaiters (2)
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French guêtre, from Middle French guiestres, guestes pl, from Old French *gueste, from Frankish *wastiju, from Proto-Germanic *wastijō (“garment; dress”).
Cognate with Middle High German wester (“a child's chrisom-cloth”), Middle High German westebarn (“godchild”), Old English wæstling (“a coverlet”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 (wasti, “garment; dress”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪ.tə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪ.təɹ/
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
- Homophone: gator
Noun
gaiter (plural gaiters)
- A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep.
- Coordinate term: spats
- A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
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- Part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop.
Derived terms
- double-gaiter
- square-gaiter
Translations
covering for the ankle and instep
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See also
- spat
Verb
gaiter (third-person singular simple present gaiters, present participle gaitering, simple past and past participle gaitered)
- To dress with gaiters.
Further reading
gaiters on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English gaytre, from Old English gāte-trēow (“the common dogwood”), equivalent to gāt (“goat”) + trēow (“tree”).
Noun
gaiter (plural gaiters)
- (obsolete, dialectal) The dogwood, or a similar shrub.
References
- “gaiter, n.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “gāte-trēow”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to I
, Toronto: University of Toronto, OCLC 213811593.
Anagrams
- aigret, tirage, triage, trigae
Catalan
Etymology
gaita + -er
Noun
gaiter m (plural gaiters, feminine gaitera)
- bagpiper
Further reading
- “gaiter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Old French
Verb
gaiter
- Alternative form of gaitier
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of gaiter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | gaiter | avoir gaité | |||||
| gerund | en gaitant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | gaitant | ||||||
| past participle | gaité | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses | present | gait | gaites | gaite | gaitons | gaitez | gaitent |
| imperfect | gaitoie, gaiteie, gaitoe, gaiteve | gaitoies, gaiteies, gaitoes, gaiteves | gaitoit, gaiteit, gaitot, gaiteve | gaitiiens, gaitiens | gaitiiez, gaitiez | gaitoient, gaiteient, gaitoent, gaitevent | |
| preterite | gaitai | gaitas | gaita | gaitames | gaitastes | gaiterent | |
| future | gaiterai | gaiteras | gaitera | gaiterons | gaiteroiz, gaitereiz, gaiterez | gaiteront | |
| conditional | gaiteroie, gaitereie | gaiteroies, gaitereies | gaiteroit, gaitereit | gaiteriiens, gaiteriens | gaiteriiez, gaiteriez | gaiteroient, gaitereient | |
| compound tenses | present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses | present | gait | gaiz | gait | gaitons | gaitez | gaitent |
| imperfect | gaitasse | gaitasses | gaitast | gaitissons, gaitissiens | gaitissoiz, gaitissez, gaitissiez | gaitassent | |
| compound tenses | past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | gaite | — | gaitons | gaitez | — | ||