Plumaged is from plumage (from Old French plumage, from plume 'feather', from Latin pluma 'feather, down') + -ed. Important recorded forms include plumage (Old French) and pluma (Latin). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense remains close to that composition, with the parts narrowing into a single lexical item. In current use it covers having feathers or plumage of a specified kind. The wider family includes related words such as plumage, plume, and plumelet.