English
mappa mundi
Mappa mundi comes from Latin mappa mundī ‘map of the world’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmappa mundī‘map of the world’
- Englishearliest quotation 2012mappa mundi
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmappa mundī‘map of the world’
- Englishearliest quotation 2012mappa mundi
Earliest quotation: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: “Even the best maps and projections of our future…”
Linked words
through Latin mappa mundī ‘map of the world’
Today it means
noun A medieval European map of the world.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mappa mundī / mappa mundi