Etymology

medallion

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Today it means: A large medal, usually decorative. Full definition →

French médaillon ← Italian medaglia ← Early Medieval Latin medālia
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The story

  1. Latinmediālis
  2. Early Medieval Latinmedālia
  3. Italianmedaglia
  4. Frenchmédaille
  5. Frenchmédaillon
  6. English todaymedallion

Borrowed from French médaillon.

Words from the same roots

Frenchmédaillon all →

medaillon

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.