† rampinn.

Etymology: < Middle French rampin kind of small ship (1393 in apparently isolated attestations in Histoire de la belle Melusine, the source translated in the quots.), probably ultimately < Catalan rampí small two-masted vessel (1392 in plural rampins ; now historical), probably a transferred use (probably on account of the similarity of shape) of rampí rake (1331 in plural rampins ) < rampa cramp (14th cent.; ultimately < the same Germanic base as ramp v.¹) + -í -ine suffix⁴. Compare post-classical Latin rampina (1284 in an Italian source), Italian rampina (see note).Italian rampina is recorded in S. Battaglia Grande dizionario della lingua italiana at rampina², where it is defined as ‘a type of ship in use in the 13th cent.’ and explained as < post-classical Latin rampina < Catalan rampí, but only one illustrative example is given from a 20th-cent. maritime dictionary (which cites the post-classical Latin word, but no vernacular counterpart). It is thus unclear whether Italian rampina occurs in contemporary sources. As Catalan rampí appears to be much better attested than its post-classical Latin and Italian counterparts, it seems likely that these are borrowed from it, although the Latin word is apparently first attested earlier.