parchemin
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French parchemin, from Vulgar Latin *pergamīnus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
parchemin m (plural parchemins)
- parchment (material)
Further reading edit
- “parchemin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English edit
Noun edit
parchemin
- Alternative form of parchemyn
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *pergamīnus.
Noun edit
parchemin oblique singular, m (oblique plural parchemins, nominative singular parchemins, nominative plural parchemin)
Descendants edit
- French: parchemin
- → Middle Dutch: percament
- Dutch: perkament
- → Middle English: parchemyn, parchement, perchemyn, parchmen, parchemin, percemyn, parchemen, parchemeyn
- English: parchment
- Scots: pairchment
- → Sicilian: barciminu, carcimina
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pĕrgamēna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 240