canteen
English
/kænˈtiːn/
noun
Definitions
- A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.
- A temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc.
- A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.
- A military mess kit.
- A water bottle used by a soldier or camper.
Etymology
Borrowed from French cantine derived from Italian cantina (cellar) derived from Latin canthus (ring, wheel, beak of a cup jug, metal rim of a wheel, tire, edge of a wheel, the tire of a wheel) derived from Gaulish *cantos derived from Proto-Celtic *cantos (corner, rim) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ndʰ.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kh₂ndʰ
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- canteenless English
- canthus English
- decant English
- kanttiini Finnish
- *canthus Latin
- canthus Latin
- cantus Latin
- Kantine German
- cantina Italian
- cantiniere Italian
- kantine Dutch, Flemish
- cant French
- cantine French
- cantinier French
- cantinière French
- cantoche French
- chanfrein French
- cantina Spanish, Castilian
- decantar Spanish, Castilian
- κανθός Ancient Greek
- *kh₂ndʰ Proto-Indo-European
- cantina Portuguese
- kantin Swedish
- ceaintín Irish
- fraindre Old French
- कैंटीन Hindi
- kant Middle Dutch
- kantin Turkish
- cannetinne Norman
- căng-tin Vietnamese
- *cantos Proto-Celtic
- *kantos Proto-Celtic
- canto Old Spanish
- ikantini Xhosa
- kanti Hausa
- *cantos Gaulish