gâtine

Inherited from Middle French gastine, from Old French gastine, guastine (“uncultivated land, deserted ground”), from Frankish *wōstini (“desert, wasteland”), from Proto-Germanic *wōstinī (“desert, waste, abandoned land”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-stos (“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.

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.tin/, /ɡɑ.tin/

gâtine f (plural gâtines)

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

• gâter

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

• gênait, gitane, tagine