envelop
verbEtymology
From Middle English envolupen, from Old French anveloper, envoluper (modern French envelopper), from en- + voloper, vloper (“to wrap, wrap up”) (compare Italian -viluppare; Old Italian alternative form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vuloppare (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wlappaną, *wrappaną (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) http://www.wordnik.com/words/envelop. Akin to Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, fold”) (Modern English lap (“to wrap, involve, fold”)), Middle English wrappen (“to wrap”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), Danish dialectal vravle (“to wind, twist”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, distort”), Old English wearp (“warp”). Doublet of enwrap.
- derived from *werb-✻
- derived from *wlappaną✻
- derived from *vuloppare✻
- derived from anveloper
- inherited from envolupen
Definitions
To surround, enclose or enfold.
- (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at envelop. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at envelop. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at envelop
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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