Etymology

metalwork

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Today it means: Objects made of metal. Full definition →

English metal ← Middle English metal ← Old French meta
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The story

  1. Latinmetallum
  2. Old Frenchmeta
  3. Middle Englishmetal
  4. Englishmetal
  5. English todaymetalwork

From metal + -work.

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