Etymology

chaplin

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Today it means: Any of a class of bacterial proteins that form fibrils instead of a coiled structure. Full definition →

Old French chapelain
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromchapelain
  2. English todayChaplin

An occupational surname for a chaplain, from Middle English and Old French chapelain.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchchapelain all →

chaplain

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.