Where does “lettuce” come from?

Lettuce comes from Middle English letuse, from Old French laitue, from Latin lactuca, ultimately derived from Latin lac meaning milk, from Proto-Indo-European ǵlákts.

lettuce (English): An edible plant, "Lactuca sativa" and its close...

Definitions

  1. An edible plant, "Lactuca sativa" and its close...

Ancestry of “lettuce”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishletuselettuce; The leaves of the lettuce used as...
2Old Frenchlaituelettuce
3Latinlactūcalettuce (Lactuca sativa), wolf's milk (Lactuca maritima), and other Lactuca species
4Latinlácmilk
5Proto-Indo-Europeanǵláktsmilk

Words derived from “lettuce”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵlákts →Every word from Latin lác →Every word from Latin lactūca →