Etymology

feme

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Today it means: A woman. Full definition →

Middle English feme ← Anglo-Norman feme ← Old French femme
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfēmina
  2. Old French · derived fromfemme
  3. Anglo-Norman · derived fromfeme“woman”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromfeme
  5. English todayfeme

From Middle English feme, from Anglo-Norman feme (“woman”), from Old French femme, from Latin fēmina. Doublet of femina, femme, and hembra.

Words from the same roots

Anglo-Normanfeme all →

feme covertfeme sole

Latinfēmina all →

feminafemicidefemino-feminology

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.