enque
Old French
Etymology
From Late Latin encaustum, from Ancient Greek ἔγκαυστον (énkauston).
Noun
enque m (oblique plural enques, nominative singular enques, nominative plural enque)
- ink (dark liquid used for writing, etc.)
Descendants
- Middle French: ancre
- French: encre
- Norman: encre
- → Middle English: ynke
- English: ink
- → Sicilian: inca (obsolete)
- → Maltese: linka
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (encre, supplement)