Where does “grocery” come from?
Grocery derives from French grosserie, a noun formed from the adjective gros meaning "large" or "wholesale," reflecting the original sense of goods sold in bulk.
grocery (English): retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; A...
Definitions
- retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; A...
Ancestry of “grocery”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | grocerye | — |
| 2 | Middle English | y | Alternative form of I; Alternative form of in;... |
| 3 | Old English | iċ | I |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | ik | I |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *ek | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | éǵh₂ | I |
Words derived from “grocery”