The story
- Latin · derived fromaurum“gold”
- Late Latin · derived fromauriphrigiatus
- English todayauriphrygiate
From Late Latin auriphrigiatus; Latin aurum (“gold”) + Late Latin phrygiare (“to adorn with Phrygian needlework, or with embroidery”); perhaps corrupted from some other word.
Words from the same roots
Latinaurum all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.