mât

mât

1. ten

• mat (Mirandola)

• Hyphenation: mât

mât m (feminine singular mâta, masculine plural mât, feminine plural mâti) (Modena, Reggio Emilia)

1. insane

• matùs (Carpigiano)

Inherited from Middle French mast, from Old French mast, from Early Medieval Latin mastus, from Frankish *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

• IPA^(key): /ma/ ~ /mɑ/

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mât m (plural mâts)

1. (nautical) mast
2. flagstaff

• mâter
• démâter

• “mât”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• AMT

From Old French mast, from Frankish *mast, from Early Medieval Latin mastus, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

mât m (plural mâts)

1. (Jersey, nautical) mast
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 534:

     Cherne à la lune, jamais n'a fait amenaïr mât d'hune.

     A circle round the has never caused top-mast to be struck.