parchemin
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French parchemin, from Vulgar Latin *pergamīnus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paʁ.ʃə.mɛ̃/
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Noun
parchemin m (plural parchemins)
- parchment (material)
Further reading
- “parchemin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
parchemin
- alternative form of parchemyn
Old French
Alternative forms
- parchamin
- perkemin, parkemin (northern)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *pergamīnus.
Noun
parchemin oblique singular, m (oblique plural parchemins, nominative singular parchemins, nominative plural parchemin)
Descendants
- 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
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pĕrgamēna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 8: Patavia–Pix, page 240