mamele

Old French

Etymology

Latin mammula.

Noun

mamele f (oblique plural mameles, nominative singular mamele, nominative plural mameles)

breast
- late 12th century, anonymous, La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford, page 368 (of the Champion Classiques edition of Le Roman de Tristan, →ISBN, line 281:
  si me nurri de sa mamele
  then she fed me with her breast

Descendants

French: mammelle

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