gantelet
التعريفات والمعاني
== French ==
=== Etymology ===
From gant + -elet.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ɡɑ̃t.lɛ/
=== Noun ===
gantelet m (plural gantelets)
gauntlet (armored glove)
gauntlet (falconer's glove)
gauntlet (challenge)
==== Derived terms ====
envoyer son gantelet
ramasser le gantelet
=== Further reading ===
“gantelet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
== Old French ==
=== Alternative forms ===
gauntlet
=== Etymology ===
First known attestation in the late 13th century in the plural gantelés. From gant + -elet (no evidence of an intermediate *gantel).
=== Noun ===
gantelet oblique singular, m (oblique plural gantelez or ganteletz, nominative singular gantelez or ganteletz, nominative plural gantelet)
gauntlet (armored glove)
==== Descendants ====
French: gauntlet, gantlet
→ Middle English: gauntelet, gantelet, gauntletEnglish: gauntletYola: gauntletès (plural)
→ Spanish: guantelete
=== References ===
Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “gantelet”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.