enveloppe

Borrowed from French enveloppe.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑn.vəˈlɔp/, /ˌɛn.vəˈlɔp/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: en‧ve‧lop‧pe
• Rhymes: -ɔp

enveloppe f (plural enveloppen, diminutive enveloppetje n)

1. Alternative spelling of envelop.

From Middle French enveloppe, anveloppe, from Old French envelope (“that which envelops, a type of garment”), from envoloper, anveloper (“to wrap around, enfold, cover”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.vlɔp/

• Audio

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enveloppe f (plural enveloppes)

1. envelope (wrapper for mailing)
2. (geometry) envelope (of a family of curves)
3. (biology) envelope (an enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane)

• envelopper

• → Dutch: envelop
  • → Caribbean Javanese: amplop
  • → Indonesian: amplop
    • → Ambonese Malay: amplop
    • → Ternate: amflop
  • → Papiamentu: ènvelòp
  • → Sranan Tongo: ènfelop
    • → Caribbean Javanese: angflop, angklop
• → English: envelope
• → Portuguese: envelope

• “enveloppe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.