mitaine

Borrowed from French mitaine.

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mitaine f (plural mitaines)

1. fingerless glove

Inherited from Old French mite, miste (“playful name for cat”) + -aine. See also minet (“cat”) and Provençal mino (“female cat”), both of expressive origin.

Sense 3 is borrowed from English meeting; cf. the sound change in domplaine (“dumpling”).

• IPA^(key): /mi.tɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn

mitaine f (plural mitaines)

1. fingerless glove
2. (Canada) mitten
3. (Canada, dated) a protestant church or religious office

• croque-mitaine

• → Dutch: mitaine
• → Russian: мите́нка (miténka)

• “mitaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “mitten”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

From Old French mitaine, possibly from mite (“pet name for a cat”) (see the French entry above).

mitaine f (plural mitaines)

1. (Jersey) mitten

• miton