Etymology

involucre

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Today it means: Conspicuous bract, bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence. Full definition →

French involucre ← Latin involūcrum
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frominvolūcrum“wrapper”
  2. French · borrowed frominvolucre
  3. English todayinvolucre

Borrowed from French involucre, from Latin involūcrum (“wrapper”). Doublet of involucrum.

Words from the same roots

Latininvolūcrum all →

involucrininvolucrum

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