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)

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.

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