The story
- French · borrowed fromangélique
- English todayangélique
Borrowed from French angélique. Doublet of angelic and angelique (“a plant of the genus Angelica”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A plucked bowl lute with two necks and most often sixteen strings, played in the manner of a harp, and popular in Baroque Europe. Full definition →