myEtymology.com: French etymology of passepoil

Etymology of the French word passepoil

the French word passepoil

derived from the Old French word passer

derived from the Vulgar Latin word passare

derived from the Late Latin word passus (spread out; outstretched; dried; step, pace)

derived from the Latin word pati (suffer; allow; undergo)

derived from the Latin word pandere (spread out [passis manibus => with hands outstretched])

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *petə-

derived from the French word poil

derived from the Late Latin word pilus (hair; chief; hair; bit, whit)

derived from the Greek word pilus

The earliest known usage of passepoil in French dates from the 17th century.

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