tisane

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From Anglo-Norman tysanne, Middle French ptisane, tisane (“barley water, medicinal drink”), and their source, Latin tisana, variant of ptisana, from Ancient Greek πτισάνη (ptisánē, “peeled barley, barley-water”), from πτίσσειν (ptíssein, “to peel, to crush”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɪˈzan/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɪˈzæn/

tisane (plural tisanes)

1. A medicinal drink, originally made from barley soaked in water; a herbal tea. [from 14th c.]
   • 1831, Alexander Macaulay, A dictionary of medicine, designed for popular use, 2nd edition, page 454:

     Ptisan. A diluent drink which makes a great figure in the dietetic precepts of the ancients.

   • 1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train:

     “Neither,” said Poirot, “I shall go to bed and take a tisane. The expected has happened […].”

   • 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society 2010, p. 5:

     The sick people would take away also some herbs for their ptisan, some wine and other comforts […].

   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

     As soon as he had opened the door he worked his way back to his high-backed Queen Anne armchair, where he picked up his bone-china cup and took a sip of a rarefied tisane.

• herbal tea

• Eastin, Setian, Teians, anties, satiné, seatin', seitan, sentai, teasin', tenias, tineas

From Latin tisana, ptisana, from Ancient Greek πτισάνη (ptisánē, “peeled barley, barley-water”), related to πτίσσειν (ptíssein, “to peel”).

• IPA^(key): /ti.zan/

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tisane f (plural tisanes)

1. herbal tea; tisane

   Cette tisane est très chaude. ― This herbal tea is very hot.

   une tisane à la menthe ― peppermint tea

2. (colloquial, dated) beating, pounding, thrashing

• (herbal tea): infusion

• tisane on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “tisane” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• entais, niâtes, sainte, seinât, tenais

tisane f

1. plural of tisana

• antesi, asteni, entasi, intesa, senati, tesina