English
lampassé
Lampassé comes from French lampassé ‘langued’, and goes back to lampas.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentlampas
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentlampassé‘langued’
- Englishearliest quotation 1903same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentlampas
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentlampassé‘langued’
- Englishearliest quotation 1903same form
Earliest quotation: 1903, Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler: “[…] Quarterly, 1, or, upon a rock proper an…”
Every English word from French lampas
Today it means
adj Langued.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French lampas / lampassé