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- Latin · derived fromvillus“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*villutittus
- Old Occitan · derived fromveluet
- Middle English · derived fromvelvet
- English todayvelvet
From Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Vulgar Latin *villutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.
Words from the same roots
Latinvillus all →
villusvillousvillinvilliform
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.