Old French edit

Etymology edit

Latin exemplāris.[1]

Noun edit

essamplaire oblique singularm (oblique plural essamplaires, nominative singular essamplaires, nominative plural essamplaire)

  1. example; model; role model

Descendants edit

  • Middle French: exemplaire (reformed based on Latin)
  • English: sampler

References edit

  1. ^ Etymology and history of exemplaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.