aldin

From alde +‎ -in.

• IPA^(key): /al.dɛ̃/

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aldin (feminine aldine, masculine plural aldins, feminine plural aldines)

1. Aldine

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

From Old Norse aldin (“fruit of a tree”). Cognate with Swedish ollon (“acorn, beechnut”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaltɪn/

aldin n (genitive singular aldins, nominative plural aldin)

1. fruit (part of plant)

   Synonym: ávöxtur

• bjúgaldin
• rauðaldin
• steinaldin

• landi

To a Proto-Germanic *alðōn-, to a stem originally meaning “fruit bearing tree”.

Related to Old Norse *alda, Old Swedish alda (“fruit bearing tree”), Swedish olla, ålla (“hollowed part, big box, trough, tray”), Danish olde, olden (“trough, tray”), dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk olda, olla (“trough, tray”); also Old West Norse -yla and Old East Norse -al, to Proto-Germanic *-ilǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaltɪn/

aldin

1. (botany) fruit (especially of oak and beech trees)
2. based on descendants: something hollowed; trough, tray

• Icelandic: aldin
• Norwegian Nynorsk: (dialectal) alda
• Old Danish: aldæn
  • Danish: olden
• Old Swedish: adlin, allin, allon, aallon
  • Swedish: ollon, ållon

Borrowed from Italian aldino.

aldin m or n (feminine singular aldină, masculine plural aldini, feminine/neuter plural aldine)

1. Aldine