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Where does “greengrocer” come from?

Greengrocer comes from English green and grocer, where grocer derives from Old French -er and Latin -are denoting agent nouns, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European gʰreh₁-.

greengrocer (English): A person who sells fresh vegetables and fruit,...

Definitions

  1. A person who sells fresh vegetables and fruit,...

Ancestry of “greengrocer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishgrocerA person who retails groceries from a grocery;...
2Frenchgrossiercoarse; shoddy; gross
3French-ierused to form the names of trees bearing a...
4Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
5Latin-āre—
6Proto-Italic-āōForms primarily denominative verbs
7Proto-Indo-European-eh₂yétiCreates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive...
8Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
9Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-—
10Chichewaiyehe, she

Words derived from “greengrocer”

  • greengrocery
  • greengroceress
  • greengrocing
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