gantelet
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gantelet m (plural gantelets)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “gantelet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
First known attestation in the late 13th century in the plural gantelés. From gant + -elet (no evidence of an intermediate *gantel).
Noun edit
gantelet oblique singular, m (oblique plural gantelez or ganteletz, nominative singular gantelez or ganteletz, nominative plural gantelet)
- gauntlet (armored glove)
Descendants edit
- French: gauntlet, gantlet
- → Middle English: gauntelet, gantelet, gauntlet
- English: gauntlet
- Yola: gauntletès (plural)
- → Spanish: guantelete
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (gantelet, supplement)