gilet
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French gilet (“vest, waistcoat”), from regional Italian gileccu (Calabria), gilecco (Genoa), gelecco (Naples), ggileccu (Sicily), etc. (standard Italian gilè is borrowed from French), from Turkish yelek (“jelick; vest, waistcoat”) (ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yẹl (“wind”, noun)) with the final syllable modified to match other types of clothing such as corselet and mantelet. The Oxford English Dictionary does not regard the French word as having derived from Arabic جَلِيقَة (jalīqa), which it views as a recent borrowing from Italian into Algerian Arabic.[1] Doublet of jelick.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈʒiːleɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈʒɪleɪ/, /ʒɪˈleɪ/
- Rhymes: (one GA pronunciation) -eɪ
- Hyphenation: gi‧let
Noun edit
gilet (plural gilets)
- (historical)
- A waistcoat worn by a man.
- A bodice worn by a woman similar to a man's waistcoat; also, a decorative panel at the front of such a bodice, or worn separately.
- (by extension) A sleeveless jacket resembling a waistcoat but generally closed at the neck; specifically, one which is padded to provide warmth.
- Synonym: bodywarmer
Translations edit
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Notes edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 From the collection of the Museum Rotterdam in Rotterdam, South Holland, the Netherlands.
References edit
- ^ “gilet, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “gilet, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading edit
- gilet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “gilet”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From regional Italian gileccu (Calabria), gilecco (Genoa), gelecco (Naples), ggileccu (Sicily), etc. (standard Italian gilè is borrowed from French), from Turkish yelek (“jelick; vest, waistcoat”) (ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yẹl (“wind”, noun)) with the final syllable modified to match other types of clothing such as corselet and mantelet. The Oxford English Dictionary does not regard the word as having derived from Arabic جَلِيقَة (jalīqa), which it views as a recent borrowing from Italian into Algerian Arabic.[1] Compare Greek γιλέκο (giléko), Spanish chaleco.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gilet m (plural gilets)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ “gilet, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “gilet, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading edit
- “gilet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Picard edit
Noun edit
gilet m