épingle
French
noun
Definitions
- pin small device, made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening
Etymology
Inherited from Latin *spingula, spīnula (needle, little thorn, spinule).
Origin
Latin
spīnula
Gloss
needle, little thorn, spinule
Concept
Semantic Field
Clothing and grooming
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
針
Emoji
💉 🧵 🪡
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- epinglette English
- *spingula Latin
- *spinla Latin
- spinulifer Latin
- spīna Latin
- spīnula Latin
- spilla Italian
- speld Dutch, Flemish
- -er French
- épinglage French
- épingler French
- épinglette French
- espiñela Galician
- spelde Middle Dutch
- spenala Old High German
- spëndelinc Middle High German
- zepeng Mauritian Creole
- zepeng Seychellois Creole