plume
French
noun
Definitions
- feather
- quill
- nib, the writing end of a fountain pen or a dip pen
- (dated) writer, penman
Etymology
Inherited from Old French plume inherited from Latin plūma (feather, plume, down, plumage).
Origin
Latin
plūma
Gloss
feather, plume, down, plumage
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
下
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Apache plume English
- antiplume English
- displume English
- emplume English
- interplume English
- megaplume English
- pluma English
- plume English
- plumebird English
- plumeless English
- plumelet English
- plumelike English
- plumery English
- plumist English
- plumy English
- replume English
- semiplume English
- superplume English
- unplume English
- pluma Latin
- plumeus Latin
- plumiger Latin
- plumo Latin
- plūma Latin
- plūmācium Latin
- gommapiuma Italian
- impiumare Italian
- piuma Italian
- piumaggio Italian
- piumato Italian
- piumetta Italian
- piumoso Italian
- superpiuma Italian
- plumeau French
- plumer French
- plumeux French
- plumier French
- stylo French
- stylo-plume French
- pluma Spanish, Castilian
- plumier Spanish, Castilian
- *plew- Proto-Indo-European
- *plewk- Proto-Indo-European
- *plews- Proto-Indo-European
- pluma Portuguese
- plum Middle English
- plumage Old French
- plume Old French
- plumo Esperanto
- implume Catalan, Valencian
- ploma Catalan, Valencian
- pluma Galician
- plumieră Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- plu Welsh
- pluf Welsh
- plume Middle Dutch
- pfluma Old High German
- phlūma Old High German
- clúm Old Irish
- plieunme Norman
- plleume Norman
- *plow(k)smā Proto-Italic
- pluma Asturian
- plume Friulian
- plum xno
- pluv Cornish
- ciùmma Ligurian
- plim Haitian, Haitian Creole
- plome Walloon
- pluma Interlingua
- plim Rade
- pluff Middle Breton