essamplaire

Old French

Etymology

Latin exemplāris.[1]

Noun

essamplaire oblique singular, m (oblique plural essamplaires, nominative singular essamplaires, nominative plural essamplaire)

example; model; role model

Descendants

⇒ Middle French: exemplaire (reformed based on Latin)
- French: exemplaire
- → English: exemplar
→ English: sampler

References

Etymology and history of “exemplaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (essamplaire)

essamplaire on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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