Where does “perfume” come from?

Perfume comes from Middle French parfum, derived from Middle French parfumer, which comes from Old Occitan perfumar.

perfume (English): A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous...

Definitions

  1. A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous...

Ancestry of “perfume”, step by step

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

Words derived from “perfume

Every word from Proto-Italic peri-