simple
Old French
adj
Definitions
- innocent
- mere; simple
- honest; without pretense
- peasant, pauper (attributive)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin simplex (simple, onefold, single, plain, singular).
Origin
Latin
simplex
Gloss
simple, onefold, single, plain, singular
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- simple English
- simplex English
- persimplex Latin
- simplex Latin
- simpliciter Latin
- simple French
- simple Spanish, Castilian
- *sem- Proto-Indo-European
- simpel Norwegian Bokmål
- simpel Swedish
- simpel Norwegian Nynorsk
- sympilte Middle English
- symple Middle English
- symplenesse Middle English
- symply Middle English
- simple Catalan, Valencian
- simple Galician
- sîmpl'ye Norman
- simplez Old Portuguese
- simpel Middle Low German
- sempel Romansh
- simpel Romansh
- simple Asturian
- *sɨml Proto-Brythonic