poitrine
French
noun
Definitions
- chest (of body)
- breast (of body)
- breast (of poultry, as meat)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French peitrine inherited from Latin *pectorīna, pectus (chest, breast).
Origin
Latin
pectus
Gloss
chest, breast
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
胸
Emoji
🧰
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pectus English
- poitrine English
- *pectorile, *pectorilis Latin
- *pectorina Latin
- *pectorīna Latin
- appectorāre Latin
- pectoralis Latin
- pectus Latin
- petto Italian
- pettorina Italian
- poitrinaire French
- pecho Spanish, Castilian
- pretina Spanish, Castilian
- *peg Proto-Indo-European
- peitrine Old French
- ampit Catalan, Valencian
- pit Catalan, Valencian
- piept Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- peito Old Portuguese
- cheptu Aromanian
- *pektos Proto-Italic
- pet Romansh
- pèz Romansh
- péz Romansh
- pechu Asturian
- pet Friulian
- petrina Old Spanish
- pettu Sicilian
- pwatrin Haitian, Haitian Creole
- pwetrene Walloon
- pitto Istriot
- peito Aragonese
- kľeptu Istro-Romanian
- kľeptu Megleno-Romanian