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ermelin

ermelin noun: an ermine.

Noun

ermelin (plural ermelins)

  1. (obsolete) An ermine.
    • And on his shield enueloped seuenfold / He bore a crowned litle Ermilin [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of ermelin

pluralermelins
alternative formermilin

Origin of ermelin

Borrowed from German Hermelin (“ermine”), from Middle High German hermelin, from Old High German harmilī, harmilīn (“weasel”), diminutive of Old High German harmo (“ermine, stoat, weasel”), from Proto-West Germanic *harmō, from Proto-Germanic *harmô (“weasel”). Cognate with Italian ermellino (“ermine”), from the same Germanic source. More at ermine.

Questions about ermelin

What does ermelin mean?
Ermelin means an ermine.
What part of speech is ermelin?
Ermelin is a noun.
What is the plural of ermelin?
The plural of ermelin is ermelins.

Words near ermelin in the dictionary

  1. Erman
  2. Ermans
  3. Ermantraut
  4. erme
  5. ermed
  6. ermelin
  7. ermelins
  8. Ermelo
  9. Ermengarde
  10. Ermentraut
  11. ermergerd

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