cantine French · revision 15730

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /kɑ̃.tin/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cantine''' ''f'' (plural cantines)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|it|cantina|t=cellar, wine store]] (from the second half of the 13th century),^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|2, 232a) a derivative of [[m|it|canto|t=corner]], hence “out-of-the-way corner, store room”; it belongs to the family of [[canton]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Académie 9)

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+ Littré lists older explanations: from the same root as [[it|cantone|t=corner]] (Diez), from “canovettina” “little cellar” (Ménage), or from [[la|quintāna|t=market in a Roman camp]] (Tardieu), the one he preferred.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Richelet (1680) records it for a small case used in the army to carry bottles.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Two lines of sense grew from the start.^(DHLF 1992) The case for bottles became an officer's trunk (1877, Littré) and then any sturdy, often metal, travelling trunk.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ The Italian sense of a store came back with a royal ordinance of 1720 on a ''cantine'' supplying tobacco to the troops, and then wine and beer (1740).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) By 1845 it was a place where food and drink were served to a community (a hospice, prison or barracks), and by 1867 to the workers of a factory^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007); ''cantine scolaire'', the school canteen, is familiarly ''cantoche''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007) The ''cantinière'' (from 1762) who followed the troops selling drink and food lasted until the First World War.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ In African French ''cantine'' is also a food box or a stall, and in Quebec a ''cantine mobile'' is a catering van.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd half of the 13th century – Italian ''cantina'' “cellar”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1680 – A case for carrying bottles in the army (Richelet).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1694 – First recorded by the Académie.^(TLFi)

+ * 1720 – A store supplying tobacco to troops.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1740 – A store selling wine and beer to soldiers.^(TLFi)

+ * 1762 – ''Cantinier''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1845 – A place serving meals to a community.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1877 – An officer's trunk (Littré).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|canteen]], a dining hall serving meals to the members of a school, firm or other community.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # ''(familiar)'' A favourite restaurant where one eats regularly.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # A plain, sturdy travelling [[m|en|trunk]], especially a soldier's.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # In a prison, the service through which inmates buy everyday goods.^(Larousse)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cantinier]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[canton]]

+ * [[en|canteen]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}