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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

  1. A melon of species Cucumis melo subsp. melo with...

Ancestry of “cantaloupe”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcantaloupcantaloupe
2ItalianCantalupo—
3Italiancantosong; singing; corner
4Latincantussung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted
5Latincanerepresent active infinitive of canō; second-person...
6LatincaneoI am white, gray or hoary
7Latin-eoForms stative verbs from adjectives; dative...
8Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
9Proto-Italic-ējō—
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
11Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots

Words derived from “cantaloupe”

  • cantaloup
  • cantaloupey
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