Where does “Piccadilly” come from?
Piccadilly derives from English piccadill, from Spanish picado with the diminutive suffix -illo, ultimately from Latin -ellus, a diminutive formative.
Piccadilly (English): Piccadilly, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus
Definitions
- Piccadilly, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus
Ancestry of “Piccadilly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | piccadill | A large, broad lace collar from the 17th century |
| 2 | Spanish | picadillo | salad; minced meat |
| 3 | Spanish | picado | rotten, spoiled; piqued; decayed |
| 4 | Spanish | picar | to itch; to sting; to chop |
| 5 | Spanish | pico | beak; sharp point; pick, pickaxe |
| 6 | Old Spanish | bico | — |
| 7 | Latin | beccus | beak, bill |
| 8 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 9 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 10 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 11 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |