Where does “parfum” come from?

parfum (Dutch) comes from Middle French parfum, from Latin per-, from Proto-Italic peri-.

parfum (Dutch): A perfume, a luxury product providing a fragrant...

Definitions

  1. A perfume, a luxury product providing a fragrant...

Ancestry of “parfum”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchparfumperfume
2Latinper-Used to make adjectives or verbs that are "very"...
3Proto-Italicperi-—

Words derived from “parfum”

Every word from Proto-Italic peri- →Every word from Latin per- →Every word from Middle French parfum →