Envelope etymology

English

English word envelope comes from Vulgar Latin *vuloppare, and later French envelopper (To envelop. To wrap someone or something, to cover.)

Etymology of envelope

Detailed word origin of envelope

Dictionary entry Language Definition
*vuloppare Vulgar Latin (la-vul)
vloper Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro)
envelopper Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) (frm)
envelopper French (fr) To envelop. To wrap someone or something, to cover.
enveloppe French (fr) (geometry) envelope (of a family of curves). Envelope (wrapper for mailing).
envelope English (en) (astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.. (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane.. (computing) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.. (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier [...]

Words with the same origin as envelope

Descendants of *vuloppare

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