Where does “pots” come from?
Pot comes from Middle English pot, from Old French pot, from Middle Dutch pote, with uncertain ultimate origins possibly related to Latin potens meaning "powerful" or "able."
pots (English): plural of pot; API pl; A large quantity
Definitions
- plural of pot; API pl; A large quantity
Ancestry of “pots”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pot | A flat-bottomed vessel used for cooking food;... |
| 2 | Middle English | pot | A pot; a circular receptacle or vessel; The top... |
| 3 | Old French | pot | pot; third-person singular present indicative of... |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | pottum | — |
| 5 | Frankish | *pott | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | puttaz | pot, jar, tub |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | budn- | a kind of vessel; type of vessel; a type of... |