Etymology

lames

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Today it means: Small steel plates combined so as to slide one upon other and form a piece of armour: plural of lame. Full definition →

French lame ← Latin lāmina
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lames · verb, noun1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lames · noun2

  1. Latin · derived fromlāmina
  2. French · borrowed fromlame“a thin plate”
  3. English todaylames

Borrowed from French lame (“a thin plate”), from Latin lāmina.

Words from the same roots

Frenchlame all →

lamé

Latinlāmina all →

laminatelamina

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