bâtard

bastard

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

bastard (person born to unmarried parents); hybrid plant; batard (short baguette); bastard, asshole

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