gâtine

French

Etymology

From Middle French gastine, from Old French gastine, guastine (“uncultivated land, deserted ground”), from Frankish *wuastinna, *wuostinna (“desert, wasteland”), from Proto-Germanic *wōstinjō (“desert, waste, abandoned land”), from Proto-Indo-European *wāsto- (“empty, wasted”). Influenced in form by gâter. Cognate with Middle High German wuostinne, wuosten (“a desert, waste”), Saterland Frisian Wüüste (“a desert, waste”), Old English wēsten (“a waste, wilderness, desert”). More at waste.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡɑ.tin/

Noun

gâtine f (plural gâtines)

wasteland; moor
(obsolete) marshy, waterproof and sterile ground

Further reading

“gâtine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

gênait, gitane, tagine

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