mitaine
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French mitaine.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
mitaine f (plural mitaines)
- fingerless glove
French
Etymology
From Old French mite, miste (“playful name for cat”) + -aine. See also minet (“cat”) and Provençal mino (“female cat”), both of expressive origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.tɛn/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛn
Noun
mitaine f (plural mitaines)
- fingerless glove
- (Canada) mitten
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, of Germanic origin.
Noun
mitaine f (plural mitaines)
- (Jersey) mitten
Synonyms
- miton