ratoun
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Anglo-Norman ratoun; equivalent to ratte + -oun.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editratoun (plural ratouns)
- rat
- Synonym: ratte
- c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, Prologue:
- Wiþ þat ran þere a route · of ratones at ones / And smale mys with hem · mo þen a þousande
- With that a rout of rats ran at once, / and small mice with them; more than a thousand.
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “ratǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-14.
Old French
editNoun
editratoun oblique singular, m (oblique plural ratouns, nominative singular ratouns, nominative plural ratoun)
- rat or baby rat
Usage notes
edit- The Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub lists the meaning as 'rat' (with one citation) while the Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle lists the meaning as 'baby rat' (also with one citation). See references below.
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (raton, supplement)
- ratoun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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