Where does “cantaloupe” come from?
Cantaloupe comes from French cantaloup, from Italian Cantalupo, a place name in Italy where the melon variety was cultivated.
cantaloupe (English): A melon of species Cucumis melo subsp. melo with...
Definitions
- A melon of species Cucumis melo subsp. melo with...
Ancestry of “cantaloupe”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | cantaloup | cantaloupe |
| 2 | Italian | Cantalupo | — |
| 3 | Italian | canto | song; singing; corner |
| 4 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 5 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 6 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 7 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |