canette
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Noun edit
canette (plural canettes)
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Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French kanete (“vase, pitcher for serving beer”), a diminutive (with suffix -ette) of Medieval Latin cana, canna (“can, jug, vessel”), from Frankish *kanna (“jug, pitcher, can”), from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“tankard, mug, can”), from Proto-Indo-European *gandʰ-, *gan- (“a vessel, tub”). Cognate with Old High German channa (“can”), Old English canne (“can”). More at can.
Noun edit
canette f (plural canettes)
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: canet
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Middle French canette. By surface analysis, cane + -ette.
Noun edit
canette f (plural canettes)
- (female) duckling
Further reading edit
- “canette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.