Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA woman.
From Middle English feme, from Anglo-Norman feme (“woman”), from Old French femme, from Latin fēmina. Doublet of femina, femme, and hembra.
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