mapamonde
Appearance
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin mappa mundī. The first component is a doublet of nappe, the inherited form.
Noun
[edit]mapamonde oblique singular, f (oblique plural mapamondes, nominative singular mapamonde, nominative plural mapamondes)
Descendants
[edit]- → Middle English: mapemounde
- French: mappemonde
Further reading
[edit]- “mappemonde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.