14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a1586, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Middle English caban, cabayne "hut, shelter made of wood, earth, or stones, small room, room on a ship," borrowed from Middle French cabane "hut used for temporary shelter" or its source, Old Occitan cabana, going back to pre-Latin *capanna, of uncertain origin

NOTE: Alongside cabane, French also has cabine "room on a ship, compartment on a train or plane." Modern uses of this word appear to depend heavily on English cabin, but in the earliest attestations, from the civil records of the city of Lille (1364, 1384), cabine refers to a room or building used as a gambling den ("cabane où l'on se réunit pour jouer"). Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, and Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch both take this cabine as the source of the -en/-in spellings of English cabin, though the evidence is not certain, and depends on how the vowel of the second syllable was rendered after the shift of stress to the first syllable. Note that Oxford's earliest -en/-in spelling, in John Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse (1530) renders English "cabbyn in a shippe" with French cabain, not cabine. It is also of interest that the meaning "room in a ship" turns up first in English (caban in a naval document of 1346—see Middle English Dictionary), the earliest record of the English word in any sense. Is it possible that the word was acquired from French or directly from Occitan via the English military campaigns in Aquitaine, and developed certain senses entirely within English? – Outcomes of the etymon *capanna are found over a large part of the Romance speech area; there is a variant *camanna in Alpine dialects (see Lessico etimologico italiano). The earliest Latin evidence of the word is in Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae (15.12.2). In the Reichenau Glosses, compiled in the ninth century in northern France, the classical Latin word tugurium "rudimentary dwelling, hut," used in the Vulgate, is glossed as cauanna. An Italian manuscript of ca. 800 containing scholia on Juvenal's satires (Leiden University Library VLQ 18) defines the word poseucha (a Jewish meeting place for prayer) as "casula pauperum i. cabanna" ("a cottage of the poor, i.e., cabanna"). See also cabana, cabinet entry 1.

derivative of cabin entry 1

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a1586, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Middle English caban, cabayne "hut, shelter made of wood, earth, or stones, small room, room on a ship," borrowed from Middle French cabane "hut used for temporary shelter" or its source, Old Occitan cabana, going back to pre-Latin *capanna, of uncertain origin

NOTE: Alongside cabane, French also has cabine "room on a ship, compartment on a train or plane." Modern uses of this word appear to depend heavily on English cabin, but in the earliest attestations, from the civil records of the city of Lille (1364, 1384), cabine refers to a room or building used as a gambling den ("cabane où l'on se réunit pour jouer"). Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, and Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch both take this cabine as the source of the -en/-in spellings of English cabin, though the evidence is not certain, and depends on how the vowel of the second syllable was rendered after the shift of stress to the first syllable. Note that Oxford's earliest -en/-in spelling, in John Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse (1530) renders English "cabbyn in a shippe" with French cabain, not cabine. It is also of interest that the meaning "room in a ship" turns up first in English (caban in a naval document of 1346—see Middle English Dictionary), the earliest record of the English word in any sense. Is it possible that the word was acquired from French or directly from Occitan via the English military campaigns in Aquitaine, and developed certain senses entirely within English? – Outcomes of the etymon *capanna are found over a large part of the Romance speech area; there is a variant *camanna in Alpine dialects (see Lessico etimologico italiano). The earliest Latin evidence of the word is in Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae (15.12.2). In the Reichenau Glosses, compiled in the ninth century in northern France, the classical Latin word tugurium "rudimentary dwelling, hut," used in the Vulgate, is glossed as cauanna. An Italian manuscript of ca. 800 containing scholia on Juvenal's satires (Leiden University Library VLQ 18) defines the word poseucha (a Jewish meeting place for prayer) as "casula pauperum i. cabanna" ("a cottage of the poor, i.e., cabanna"). See also cabana, cabinet entry 1.

derivative of cabin entry 1

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a1586, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Middle English caban, cabayne "hut, shelter made of wood, earth, or stones, small room, room on a ship," borrowed from Middle French cabane "hut used for temporary shelter" or its source, Old Occitan cabana, going back to pre-Latin *capanna, of uncertain origin

NOTE: Alongside cabane, French also has cabine "room on a ship, compartment on a train or plane." Modern uses of this word appear to depend heavily on English cabin, but in the earliest attestations, from the civil records of the city of Lille (1364, 1384), cabine refers to a room or building used as a gambling den ("cabane où l'on se réunit pour jouer"). Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, and Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch both take this cabine as the source of the -en/-in spellings of English cabin, though the evidence is not certain, and depends on how the vowel of the second syllable was rendered after the shift of stress to the first syllable. Note that Oxford's earliest -en/-in spelling, in John Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse (1530) renders English "cabbyn in a shippe" with French cabain, not cabine. It is also of interest that the meaning "room in a ship" turns up first in English (caban in a naval document of 1346—see Middle English Dictionary), the earliest record of the English word in any sense. Is it possible that the word was acquired from French or directly from Occitan via the English military campaigns in Aquitaine, and developed certain senses entirely within English? – Outcomes of the etymon *capanna are found over a large part of the Romance speech area; there is a variant *camanna in Alpine dialects (see Lessico etimologico italiano). The earliest Latin evidence of the word is in Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae (15.12.2). In the Reichenau Glosses, compiled in the ninth century in northern France, the classical Latin word tugurium "rudimentary dwelling, hut," used in the Vulgate, is glossed as cauanna. An Italian manuscript of ca. 800 containing scholia on Juvenal's satires (Leiden University Library VLQ 18) defines the word poseucha (a Jewish meeting place for prayer) as "casula pauperum i. cabanna" ("a cottage of the poor, i.e., cabanna"). See also cabana, cabinet entry 1.

derivative of cabin entry 1

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a1586, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Middle English caban, cabayne "hut, shelter made of wood, earth, or stones, small room, room on a ship," borrowed from Middle French cabane "hut used for temporary shelter" or its source, Old Occitan cabana, going back to pre-Latin *capanna, of uncertain origin

NOTE: Alongside cabane, French also has cabine "room on a ship, compartment on a train or plane." Modern uses of this word appear to depend heavily on English cabin, but in the earliest attestations, from the civil records of the city of Lille (1364, 1384), cabine refers to a room or building used as a gambling den ("cabane où l'on se réunit pour jouer"). Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, and Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch both take this cabine as the source of the -en/-in spellings of English cabin, though the evidence is not certain, and depends on how the vowel of the second syllable was rendered after the shift of stress to the first syllable. Note that Oxford's earliest -en/-in spelling, in John Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse (1530) renders English "cabbyn in a shippe" with French cabain, not cabine. It is also of interest that the meaning "room in a ship" turns up first in English (caban in a naval document of 1346—see Middle English Dictionary), the earliest record of the English word in any sense. Is it possible that the word was acquired from French or directly from Occitan via the English military campaigns in Aquitaine, and developed certain senses entirely within English? – Outcomes of the etymon *capanna are found over a large part of the Romance speech area; there is a variant *camanna in Alpine dialects (see Lessico etimologico italiano). The earliest Latin evidence of the word is in Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae (15.12.2). In the Reichenau Glosses, compiled in the ninth century in northern France, the classical Latin word tugurium "rudimentary dwelling, hut," used in the Vulgate, is glossed as cauanna. An Italian manuscript of ca. 800 containing scholia on Juvenal's satires (Leiden University Library VLQ 18) defines the word poseucha (a Jewish meeting place for prayer) as "casula pauperum i. cabanna" ("a cottage of the poor, i.e., cabanna"). See also cabana, cabinet entry 1.

derivative of cabin entry 1