"maille" meaning in Old French

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Noun

Forms: maille oblique singular or [canonical, feminine], mailles [oblique, plural], maille [nominative, singular], mailles [nominative, plural]
Etymology: From Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula. Etymology templates: {{etymon|fro|:inh|la-vul:<alt:*macla><ety:from<la:macula>>}} [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "spot", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*sm̥Htlóm", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "status" : "inline", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*smeH-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "alt" : "*-tlóm", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "tool noun", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "agent noun", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tḗr", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-trom", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tlom", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "inline", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*smaklom", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "macula", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang" : "la-vul" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "maille", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fro" }" data-lang="fro" data-title="maille">, {{inh|fro|la-vul||*macla}} Vulgar Latin *macla, {{inh|fro|la|macula}} Latin macula Head templates: {{fro-noun|f}} maille oblique singular, f (oblique plural mailles, nominative singular maille, nominative plural mailles)
  1. chainmail; mail
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Download raw JSONL data for maille meaning in Old French (6.2kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.