English word envelope comes from Vulgar Latin *vuloppare, and later French envelopper (To envelop. To wrap someone or something, to cover.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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*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 [...] |