different between gown vs soutane

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman gune, goune (“fur-trimmed coat, pelisse”), from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna (“leather garment, a fur”), from Ancient Greek ????? (goúna, “coarse garment”), of unknown origin. Perhaps from a Balkan or Apennine language. Alternatively, perhaps from Scythian, from Proto-Iranian *gawnám (“fur”) (compare Younger Avestan ????????????????????? (gaona, “body hair”) and Ossetian ???? (?un)).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?).

Pronunciation

• enPR: goun, IPA^(key): /?a?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

gown (plural gowns)

1. A loose, flowing upper garment.
2. A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
3. The official robe of certain professionals and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
   1. The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
4. (by metonymy) The university community.

   In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war.

5. A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
6. Any sort of dress or garb.
7. The robe worn by a surgeon.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

gown (third-person singular simple present gowns, present participle gowning, simple past and past participle gowned)

1. To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

References

Anagrams

• Wong, wong

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French soutane, from Italian sottana, from Latin subtana, from subtus (“below, beneath”), from sub (“under”).

Noun

soutane (plural soutanes)

1. (Christian clerical dress) A long gown with sleeves and buttons at the front
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 21

     Then at the door of the castle the rector had shaken hands with his father and mother, his soutane fluttering in the breeze, and the car had driven off with his father and mother on it.

Translations

Further reading

• soutane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French soutane.

Pronunciation

Noun

soutane f (plural soutanes)

1. (Southern, Roman Catholicism) cassock

Synonyms

• toga
• toog

Finnish

Verb

soutane

1. Indicative connegative potential form of soutaa.

Anagrams

• soentua, soutaen, suotaen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.tan/

Noun

soutane f (plural soutanes)

1. cassock
2. soutane

Descendants

• ? Dutch: soutane
• ? English: soutane

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• nouâtes