bâtard

Inherited from Middle French bâtard, from Old French bastard (“child of a nobleman by a woman other than his wife”), from Medieval Latin bastardus (“illegitimate child”), from Proto-Germanic *banstuz, *bunstuz (“a bond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”) + -ard. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Cognate with Old Frisian bōst (“marriage”) and Middle Dutch basture (“whore, prostitute”) (from bast + hure).

• IPA^(key): /ba.taʁ/ ~ /bɑ.taʁ/

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bâtard (feminine bâtarde, masculine plural bâtards, feminine plural bâtardes)

1. bastard

bâtard m (plural bâtards, feminine bâtarde)

1. bastard (person born to unmarried parents)
2. (botany) hybrid plant
3. batard (short baguette)
4. (vulgar) bastard, asshole

• “bâtard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• bardât, bradât

From Old French bastard (“child of a nobleman by a woman other than his wife”), from Medieval Latin bastardus (“illegitimate child”), from Proto-Germanic *banstuz, *bunstuz (“a bond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”).

bâtard m (plural bâtards)

1. (Jersey) bastard
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 538:

     Bâtard dans sen lignage
     Vaut mûx qu'un frène sur s'n héritage.

     A bastard in a man's lineage is better than an ash-tree on his estate.

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