The story
- Latin · derived fromdēplūmō
- French · borrowed fromdéplumer
- English todaydeplume
From French déplumer, from Latin dēplūmō, from dē- + plūmō (“to cover with feathers”), from plūma (“feather”). Compare dēplūmis (“featherless”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.