mireor

Old French

Alternative forms

• mereor

Etymology

mirer +‎ -eor.

Noun

mireor oblique singular, m (oblique plural mireors, nominative singular mireors, nominative plural mireor)

1. mirror
   • c. 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès:

     et par ce mireor trespasse […] le san don li cuers est espris

     And through this mirror travels […] the feeling which seizes the heart

2. (figuratively) a typical example
   • Le vray miroer de la beauté humain

     The true reflection of human beauty

Descendants

• Champaignat: miréor, mirour
• Middle French: miroir
  • French: miroir
  • →? Old Tupi: gûarugûá
• → Middle English: mirour
  • English: mirror
  • Middle Scots: mirrour, myrrour, murrour
    • Scots: mirror
  • English: mirror