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vimpa

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
vim-pa
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A veil or shawl worn over the shoulders of servers who carry the mitre and crosier during liturgical functions when they are not being used by the bishop, in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some other western churches.

Etymology

From Medieval Latin vimpa, from Frankish *wimpil, *wimpila (“head scarf”), from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz, from *wīpaną (“to wind, swing”). Doublet of wimple.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: vimpa, *wimpil, *wimpilaz

Inflected Forms

vimpae (plural)

Questions

What does vimpa mean?
A veil or shawl worn over the shoulders of servers who carry the mitre and crosier during liturgical functions when they are not being used by the bishop, in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some other western churches.
Where does vimpa come from?
It is traced to Proto-Germanic.

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