cantine

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cantine

from the Italian cantina ('cellar', 'pantry'), derived from canto ('corner') hence 'remote corner', 'storage'. Pierre Larousse indicates that 'cantine' comes from 'canton' whose primitive meaning was that of 'corner', 'angle'. The term 'canton' is of Germanic origin: it is found in Old High German kant ('corner', 'end'), Anglo-Saxon cant, English cantle, Occitan cantou, Old Occitan can ('side', 'edge'), Italian canto or cantone and cantina and Spanish canton and cantina.

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cantines (v.) cantine (cn.)