EuroLex/Envelope
- Original language: French
- Original form and meaning: enveloppe - 1. reference; 2. envelope; 3. pay/wage packet; 4. husk, paring
(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)
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| Danish | enveloppe | ... | 'meaning 2' | '...' | ... |
| Dutch | envelop | ... | 'meaning 2' | '...' | ... |
| English | envelope | 18c | 'meaning 2, 4;
and also: a) the coma of a comet; b) mathematics: A curve or surface that is tangent to every one of a family of curves or surfaces; c) radio: (of a modulated carrier wave) a curve connecting the peaks of a graph of the instantaneous value of the electric or magnetic component of the carrier wave as a function of time' | '...' | http://www.etymonline.com |
| Estonian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Finnish | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| French | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
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| German | Enveloppe | ... | 'mathematics: A curve or surface that is tangent to every one of a family of curves or surfaces' | 'meaning 2' | http://www.langenscheidt.de/fremdwb/fremdwb.html |
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| Polish | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Portuguese | envelope | ... | 'meaning 2' | '...' | ... |
| Rumantsch | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Slovak | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
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Annotations
editEtymology: from F enveloppe, a back-formation of envelopper "to envelop", from OF envoluper, from en- "in" + voloper "wrap up", of uncertain origin, perhaps Celtic
Source: http://www.etymonline.com
Information on Other Languages
editmeaning 2:
Czech: obálka
Danish: konvolut; kuvert
Estonian: ümbrik
Finnish: kirjekuori
Hungarian: (levél)boríték
Italian: busta
Latvian: aploksne; apvalks
Lithuanian: vokas
Norwegian: konvolutt
Polish: koperta
Slovak: obálka
Slovenian: kuverta
Spanish: sobre
Swedish: kuvert