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Where does “mapa” come from?

mapa (Slovak) comes from German mappe, from Medieval Latin [[mappa]] [[mundī]], from Latin mappa — napkin; starting signal; map.

mapa (Slovak): map

Definitions

  1. map

Ancestry of “mapa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanmappe—
2Medieval Latin[[mappa]] [[mundī]]—
3Latinmappanapkin; starting signal; map
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