canevas

French

Etymology

From a combination of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French chanevas, chenevas and Old (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Picard canevach. The Old French comes from a root ultimately derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin *canapus, from cannabis, such as that of chanvre, possibly through a (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin root *cannabāceus or *cannapāceus, and the Old Picard comes from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  canevas, of the ultimately the same origin as the previous word. Compare English canvas, itself borrowed from Old Northern French through Anglo-Norman.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kanvɑ/, /kanva/

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Noun

canevas m (plural canevas)

1. (sewing) canvas; tapestry
2. framework
3. (cartography) network

Further reading

• “canevas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• avances, avancés, encavas

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• canevase, canvas, canvase, canefas, canvasse, caunvas, kanvas, cambace, canwas

Etymology

From , from Vulgar Latin *cannabāceus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkanəvas/, /ˈkanəvaːs/

Noun

canevas (uncountable)

1. flaxen fabric, canvas
2. A portion of canvas; a canvas item

Descendants

• English: canvas
• Scots: canvas

References

• “canevā̆s (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Adjective

canevas

1. Made of canvas
2. The colour of canvas; light brownish-yellow

Descendants

• English: canvas
• Scots: canvas

References

• “canevā̆s (adj.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)

whit	grey, hor	blak
red; cremesyn, gernet	citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne	yelow, dorry, gul; canevas
grasgrene	grene
plunket; ewage	asure, livid	blewe, blo, pers
violet; inde	rose, murrey; purpel, purpur	claret

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Old French

Noun

canevas oblique singular, m (oblique plural canevas, nominative singular canevas, nominative plural canevas)

1. Alternative form of chenevas