gîte

Borrowed from French gîte. Doublet of gist.

• IPA^(key): /ʒiːt/ (or as French, below)

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• Rhymes: -iːt

gîte (plural gîtes)

1. A French holiday home, or a rented tourist cottage.

• tige

• gite (post-1990 spelling)

Inherited from Old French giste, past participle of gesir, modern French gésir (“to lie, to be located”). Compare regional jas (“sheepfold”).

• IPA^(key): /ʒit/

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gîte m (plural gîtes)

1. shelter; lodging
2. gîte (self-catering holiday home)
3. beef shin

• gîte touristique

gîte f (plural gîtes)

1. (nautical) list (inclination of a ship)

gîte

1. inflection of gîter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• tige