The story
- Latin · calque ofcantus planus
- French · borrowed fromplain-chant
- English todayplainchant
From French plain-chant, from plain + chant, calque of Latin cantus planus.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
plainchant
Today it means: Synonym of plainsong. Full definition →
French plain-chant ← Latin cantus planus