jardin

Etymology

From Middle French jardin, from Old French jardin, ("garden, enclosure", probably from Vulgar Latin or early Gallo-Romance hortus gardinus, from Old Frankish *gardin, oblique case of *gardo (“enclosure, yard”) (compare also Old French jart (“garden”))), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰordʰos (“hedge, enclosure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“court, yard”). Cognate with Old High German gart, garto (“garden, enclosure, yard”), Old English ġeard (“garden, yard, fence, enclosure”). Cognate with English garden, which was derived from an Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French variant. More at yard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒaʁ.dɛ̃/

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Noun

jardin m (plural jardins)

1. garden

Further reading

• “jardin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Noun

jardin (plural jardines)

1. garden

Noun

jardin m (plural jardines)

1. garden

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [(d)ʒarˈdi]

Noun

jardin m (plural jardins)

1. garden

Noun

jardin m (oblique plural jardins, nominative singular jardins, nominative plural jardin)

1. Alternative form of gardin

Etymology

From Old French jardin (“garden, enclosure”), probably from Vulgar Latin or early Gallo-Romance hortus gardinus, from Old Frankish *gardin, oblique case of *gardo (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰordʰos (“hedge, enclosure”), from *gʰerdʰ- (“court, yard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaɾˈdĩ/

Noun

jardin m

1. garden
2. (figuratively, Christianity) Heaven
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 235 (facsimile):

     […] a Loemos que nos meta no iardi[n] / de ſeu fille que nos guarde do mui grand fogỹfernal.

     […] let us praise Her so that She will admit us to the garden of Her Son (=Heaven) and save us from the great fire of Hell.