tartan
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɑɹtn̩/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɑːtn̩/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tən
Etymology 1Edit
Blend of Middle English tartaryn (“rich material”), from Middle French tartarin (“Tartar cloth”), and Middle French tiretaine (“cloth of mixed fibers”), from Old French tiret (“kind of cloth”), from tire (“oriental cloth of silk”), from Medieval Latin tyrius (“material from Tyre”), from Latin Tyrus (“Tyre”).
NounEdit
tartan (countable and uncountable, plural tartans)
- A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans and some Scottish families and institutions having their own distinctive patterns.
- The pattern associated with such material.
- An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.
- Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.
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AdjectiveEdit
tartan (comparative more tartan, superlative most tartan)
- Having a pattern like a tartan.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
- ... my pupils leave off their thick shoes and tight old tartan pelisses, and wear silk stockings and muslin frocks, as fashionable baronets' daughters should.
- 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House is Built, Chapter IX, Section iii
- In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …
- (humorous) Scottish.
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VerbEdit
tartan (third-person singular simple present tartans, present participle tartaning, simple past and past participle tartaned)
- (transitive) To clothe in tartan.
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from French tartane, from Italian tartana, of uncertain origin.
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NounEdit
tartan (plural tartans)
- A type of one-masted lateen-sailed vessel used in the Mediterranean.
- 1877, Jules Verne, Ellen E. Frewer (translator), Hector Servadac, Part 2, Chapter X: Market Prices in Gallia,
- Hakkabut hereupon descended into the hold of the tartan, and soon returned, carrying ten packets of tobacco, each weighing one kilogramme, and securely fastened by strips of paper, labelled with the French Government stamp.
- 1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rodney Stone, Chapter IV: The Peace of Amiens,
- When we were watching Massena, off Genoa, we got a matter of seventy schooners, brigs, and tartans, with wine, food, and powder.
- 1877, Jules Verne, Ellen E. Frewer (translator), Hector Servadac, Part 2, Chapter X: Market Prices in Gallia,
- (historical) A kind of long covered carriage.
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NounEdit
tartan n or c (singular definite tartanet or tartanen)
- tartan (woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern)
- tartan (synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.) [from 1969]
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NounEdit
tartan n or m (plural tartans)
- tartan (woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of intersecting orthogonal coloured stripes, associated with Scottish Highlanders).
- A kilt or cloak made of tartan.
Usage notesEdit
Neuter gender is usually preferred for the mass noun denoting the fabric while masculine is preferred for countable nouns, but the distinction is not observed as clearly for this word as it is for other terms that are both mass nouns and countable nouns.
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FrenchEdit
NounEdit
tartan m (plural tartans)
Further readingEdit
- “tartan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from English tartan, from Middle English tartaryn, from Middle French tartarin, tiretaine, from Old French tiret, from tire, from Medieval Latin tyrius, from Latin Tyrus, from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤅𐤓 (ṣwr).
NounEdit
tartan m inan
- tartan (woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of intersecting orthogonal coloured stripes, associated with Scottish Highlanders)
- tartan (pattern associated with such material)
- clothing made of such fabric
- (athletics) tartan track (all-weather synthetic track surfacing made of polyurethane used for track and field competitions)
- (athletics, colloquial) tartan track (stadium or running track covered with such material)
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Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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tartan f
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tartan n (plural tartane)
DeclensionEdit
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) tartan | tartanul | (niște) tartane | tartanele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) tartan | tartanului | (unor) tartane | tartanelor |
| vocative | tartanule | tartanelor | ||
Scottish GaelicEdit
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tartan m (genitive singular tartain, plural tartain)
- tartan (woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern)
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| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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| Radical | Lenition |
| tartan | thartan |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |