gaiter

See also: Gaiter

English

hiking gaiters (2)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French guêtre, from Middle French guiestres, guestes pl, from Old French *gueste, from Frankish *wastiju, from Proto-Germanic *wastijō (“garment; dress”).

Cognate with Middle High German wester (“a child's chrisom-cloth”), Middle High German westebarn (“godchild”), Old English wæstling (“a coverlet”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 (wasti, “garment; dress”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪ.tə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪ.təɹ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
• Homophones: gater, gator

Noun

gaiter (plural gaiters)

1. A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep.

   Coordinate term: spats

2. A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

3. A neck gaiter.
   • 2022 June 14, D. Jackson Leigh, Forever Comes in Threes, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN:

     [He] stood and pulled up the gaiter around his neck to mask his mouth and nose. “People are careful around here, so you'll want to put your mask on,” she told Perry.

4. Part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop.
5. (automotive) A protective flexible sleeve covering a moving part, intended to keep the part clean.

Derived terms

• neck gaiter

 

Translations

covering for the ankle and instep

• Armenian: սռնապան (hy) (sṙnapan)
• Bulgarian: гета f (geta), гамаш m (gamaš)
• Catalan: polaina (ca) f
• Danish: gamache
• Dutch: slobkousen (nl)
• Finnish: nilkkain (fi) (ankle-high), säärys, säärystin (fi) (knee-high)
• French: guêtre (fr) f
• Galician: polaina f
• Georgian: გეტრი (geṭri), გამაში (gamaši), პაჭიჭი (ka) (ṗač̣ič̣i)
• German: Gamasche (de)

  Alemannic German: Geete f

• Ido: getro (io)
• Ingrian: ripa
• Italian: ghette f
• Japanese: 脚絆 (ja) (きゃはん, kyahan), スパッツ (ja) (supattsu)
• Lithuanian: getras
• Luxembourgish: Gett
• Macedonian: гамаш m (gamaš)
• Ottoman Turkish: بالدراق (baldırak)
• Persian: گتر (fa) (getr)
• Polish: stuptuty m pl, getry (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: polaina (pt) f
• Romanian: ghetră (ro) f
• Russian: ге́тра (ru) f (gétra), гама́ша (ru) f (gamáša), штибле́та (ru) f (štibléta)
• Spanish: polaina (es) f
• Welsh: coesarn m, coesarnau m pl

See also

• spat

Verb

gaiter (third-person singular simple present gaiters, present participle gaitering, simple past and past participle gaitered)

1. To dress with gaiters.

Further reading

• gaiters on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English gaytre, from Old English gāte-trēow (“the common dogwood”), equivalent to gāt (“goat”) ‎ trēow (“tree”).

Noun

gaiter (plural gaiters)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) The dogwood, or a similar shrub.

References

• “gaiter, n.²”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “gāte-trēow”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to I ⁠‎^[1], Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• aigret, tirage, triage, trigae

Catalan

Etymology

From gaita ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡəjˈte]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡajˈteɾ]

Noun

gaiter m (plural gaiters, feminine gaitera)

1. bagpiper

Further reading

• “gaiter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Old French

Verb

gaiter

1. Alternative form of gaitier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of gaiter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		gaiter			avoir gaité
gerund		en gaitant			gerund of avoir past participle
present participle		gaitant
past participle		gaité
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	gait	gaites	gaite	gaitons	gaitez	gaitent
	imperfect	gaitoie, gaiteie, gaitoe, gaiteve	gaitoies, gaiteies, gaitoes, gaiteves	gaitoit, gaiteit, gaitot, gaiteve	gaitiiens, gaitiens	gaitiiez, gaitiez	gaitoient, gaiteient, gaitoent, gaitevent
	preterite	gaitai	gaitas	gaita	gaitames	gaitastes	gaiterent
	future	gaiterai	gaiteras	gaitera	gaiterons	gaiteroiz, gaitereiz, gaiterez	gaiteront
	conditional	gaiteroie, gaitereie	gaiteroies, gaitereies	gaiteroit, gaitereit	gaiteriiens, gaiteriens	gaiteriiez, gaiteriez	gaiteroient, gaitereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	gait	gaiz	gait	gaitons	gaitez	gaitent
	imperfect	gaitasse	gaitasses	gaitast	gaitissons, gaitissiens	gaitissoiz, gaitissez, gaitissiez	gaitassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	gaite	—	gaitons	gaitez	—