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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information)
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map sb. XVI. — medL.
mappa, short for
mappa mundī ‘sheet of the world’, i.e.
mappa (in classL. table-cloth,
NAPKIN),
mundī g. of
mundus world.
Hence vb. XVI.
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