wantus

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

gantus, guantus

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Frankish *want (“glove”).

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯an.tus/, [ˈu̯än̪t̪ʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvan.tus/, [ˈvän̪t̪us]

Noun edit

wantus m (genitive wantī); second declension^[1]^[2]

(Medieval Latin) glove

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	wantus	wantī
Genitive	wantī	wantōrum
Dative	wantō	wantīs
Accusative	wantum	wantōs
Ablative	wantō	wantīs
Vocative	wante	wantī

Descendants edit

Old French: gant, gaunt
- Middle French: gant
  - French: gant
- ⇒ Old French: gantelet, gauntlet
  - French: gauntlet, gantlet
  - → Middle English: gauntelet, gantelet, gauntlet
    - English: gauntlet
    - Yola: gauntletès (plural)
  - → Spanish: guantelete
Iberian:
- Old Leonese: guante
  - Asturian: guante
  - Leonese: guante
- Portuguese: guante
- Spanish: guante
Italian: guanto
Old Occitan: gant, gaunt
- Catalan: guant
- Occitan: gant
Ladin: guant
Piedmontese: guant
Sicilian: nguantu

References edit

^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “wantus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1126
^ wantus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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