tante

Signification (Anglais)

1. aunt
2. homosexual (man); faggot, fag (US); poof (UK)

Synonymes

tatie

tata

tapette

pédale

pédé

tantouse

soeur du père

mère

👩‍🍼

tantine

oncle

tantouze

fée

🧚

folle

pet

prout

tante maternelle

tante paternelle

matante

clope

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tɑ̃t/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen français: tante

Hérité de ancien français: ante

Hérité de latin: amita

In summary

Inherited from Middle French tante, alteration of ante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita ("father's sister"). The initial t- is probably due to childish reduplication.
A derivation from t’ante, that is ta ante (“your aunt”), is grammatically possible because the use of ton with vowel-initial feminines is secondary and was only optional in Middle French. However, if a rebracketing of this sort had occurred, one would not expect it to happen with the second-person pronoun, but much rather the first person (thus *mante).