The story
- Latin · derived fromaurum“gold”
- Old French · derived fromoriflambe
- English todayoriflamme
From Old French oriflambe, oriflamme, from Medieval Latin auriflamma (“golden flame”), from Latin aurum (“gold”) + flamma (“flame”).
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.