Back to all words

Linen

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant
1
Stage 1 of 2
linum
Latin · ancient
"flax"
flax, the plant from whose fibers the fabric is woven
2
Stage 2 of 2
linen
English · 1000s
"cloth woven from flax fiber"
settled as the English word for cloth woven from flax fiber
Drag to pan · scroll to zoom