The story
- Latin · derived fromauripigmentum“orpiment”
- Old French · derived fromorpiment
- Middle English · inherited fromorpyment
- English todayorpiment
From Middle English orpyment, from Old French orpiment, from Latin auripigmentum (“orpiment”), from aurum (“gold”) + pigmentum (“pigment”).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchorpiment all →
orpine
Latinauripigmentum all →
orpine
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.