The story
- Latin · derived fromstāmineus“trimmed with thread”
- Medieval Latin · derived fromstāminea“kind of woollen cloth”
- Old French · derived fromestamine
- English todaystamin
From Old French estamine (modern French étamine), from Medieval Latin stāminea (“kind of woollen cloth”), from Latin stāmineus (“trimmed with thread”), from stāmen (“warp (of a loom)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.