garter

English

A bride putting on a garter.

Etymology

From Middle English garter, from Old Northern French gartier, from Old French garet (compare Old French jartier, from jaret), from Gaulish *garrā, from Proto-Celtic *garros (“calf, shank”) (compare Cornish gar, Cornish gar,Middle Welsh garr, Old Irish gairr). Cognate with French jarretière.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːtə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːɹtɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

Noun

garter (plural garters)

1. A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
2. (heraldry) A bendlet.

   Coordinate terms: bendlet, cost, riband

Derived terms

• arm garter
• Chinese garter
• garter belt
• garter snake
• garter stitch
• have someone's guts for garters
• jazz garter
• Order of the Garter
• prick the garter
• sleeve garter

 

Translations

band around leg

• Basque: galtzari (eu)
• Bulgarian: жартие́ра (bg) f (žartiéra)
• Catalan: lligacama (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 襪帶／袜带 (mat⁶ daai^3-2)

  Mandarin: 襪帶／袜带 (zh) (wàdài)

• Dutch: jarretel (nl) m or f, jarretelle (nl) m or f, kousenband (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĝartero
• Finnish: sukkanauha (fi)
• French: jarretière (fr) f, jarretelle (fr) f
• Georgian: ლეკვერთხი (ka) (leḳvertxi), წვივსაკრავი (ka) (c̣vivsaḳravi)
• German: Strumpfband (de) n
• Greek: καλτσοδέτα (el) f (kaltsodéta)
• Hungarian: zoknitartó (hu), harisnyatartó (hu)
• Irish: glúin-chrios m
• Italian: giarrettiera (it) f, giarrettella f
• Japanese: 靴下留め (くつしたどめ, kutsushitadome), ガーター (ja) (gātā)
• Korean: 가터 (gateo)
• Latin: genuālia n pl
• Norman: dgèrtchiéthe f
• Norwegian: hosebånd c (archaic), strømpebånd c
• Polish: podwiązka (pl) f
• Portuguese: liga (pt) f, jarreteira (pt) f
• Romanian: jartieră (ro) f, jartea (ro) f
• Russian: подвя́зка (ru) f (podvjázka), рези́нка (ru) f (rezínka) (для чуло́к)
• Slovene: podveza f
• Spanish: liga (es) f, jarretera f
• Swedish: strumpeband (sv) n
• Tagalog: ligas
• Taos: mę̀diaxų̀ciʼína
• Turkish: jartiyer (tr)
• Ukrainian: лестики pl (lestyky)
• Welsh: gardas m or f (North), gardys m or f (South)

(heraldry) a bendlet

• Hungarian: térdszalag (hu)

Verb

garter (third-person singular simple present garters, present participle gartering, simple past and past participle gartered)

1. (transitive) to fasten with a garter
2. (intransitive) To wear a garter
   • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 385:

     Lady Hester loathed the coarse, deluded and lecherous Princess Caroline, who showed off to Smith by 'dancing about, exposing herself, like an opera girl', and even gartering below the knee:

Anagrams

• Trager, garret, grater

Middle English

Alternative forms

• gartere, gartier, gertier

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French gartier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡartər/, /ɡarˈteːr/

Noun

garter (plural garters)

1. garter

Descendants

• English: garter
• Yola: ghurteare, gurteare

References

• “garter, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.