Feminino

tante

Significado

Conceitos

(Inglês)

(feminine) aunt
(derogatory, feminine) homosexual (man); faggot, fag (US); poof (UK)

Freqüência

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/tɑ̃t/

Herdado de francês médio

Herdado de francês arcaico

Herdado de latim

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).