jardin

See also: Jardin and jardín

English

Etymology

French jardin (“garden”), from the mossy appearance. Doublet of garden.

Noun

jardin (plural jardins)

1. The inclusions and fissures within an emerald.

French

Etymology

From Middle French jardin, from Old French jardin, from Medieval Latin jardinus (“garden”), from Old Frankish *gardin, oblique case of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”) (compare also Old French jart (“garden”)), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰordʰos (“hedge, enclosure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“court, yard”).

Cognate with Old High German gart, garto (“garden, enclosure, yard”), Old English ġeard (“garden, yard, fence, enclosure”). Cognate with English garden, which was derived from an Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French variant. More at yard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒaʁ.dɛ̃/

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Noun

jardin m (plural jardins)

1. garden

Derived terms

• araignée des jardins
• chrysanthème des jardins
• coronille des jardins
• jardin botanique
• jardin d’acclimatation
• jardin d’Éden
• jardin d’enfants
• jardin potager
• jardin public
• jardin secret
• jardin zoologique
• jardinage
• jardinier
• nain de jardin
• scabieuse des jardins

 

Related terms

• jardinage
• jardiner
• jardinerie
• jardinet
• jardinier, jardinière

Descendants

• → Catalan: jardí
• → Italian: giardino
• → Friulian: zardìn
• → Spanish: jardín (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “jardin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Interlingua

Noun

jardin (plural jardines)

1. garden

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese jardim.

Noun

jardin

1. garden
2. backyard

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Mirandese

Noun

jardin m (plural jardines)

1. garden

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [(d)ʒarˈdi]

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Noun

jardin m (plural jardins)

1. garden

Old French

Noun

jardin oblique singular, m (oblique plural jardins, nominative singular jardins, nominative plural jardin)

1. Alternative form of gardin

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Old French jardin (“garden, enclosure”), probably from Vulgar Latin or early Gallo-Romance hortus gardinus, from Old Frankish *gardin, oblique case of *gardo (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰordʰos (“hedge, enclosure”), from *gʰerdʰ- (“court, yard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaɾˈdĩ/

Noun

jardin m

1. garden
2. (figuratively, Christianity) Heaven
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 235 (facsimile):

     […] a Loemos que nos meta no iardi[n] / de ſeu fille que nos guarde do mui grand fogỹfernal.

     […] let us praise Her so that She will admit us to the garden of Her Son (=Heaven) and save us from the great fire of Hell.

Synonyms

• (garden): orto, vergeu
• (Heaven): ceo, parayso

Descendants

• Galician: xardín
• Portuguese: jardim

Spanish

Noun

jardin m (plural jardines)

1. Obsolete spelling of jardín.