mapamonde

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin mappa mundī. The first component is a doublet of nappe, the inherited form.

Noun

mapamonde oblique singular, f (oblique plural mapamondes, nominative singular mapamonde, nominative plural mapamondes)

1. world map

Descendants

• → Middle English: mapemounde
• French: mappemonde

Further reading

• “mappemonde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.