Where does “processed meat” come from?
processed meat (English) comes from English processed, from English process, from English procession, from Middle English processioun, from Old French pourciession, from Latin processio, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
processed meat (English): Any meat that has been modified to preserve or improve its flavor through methods like smoking, curing, salting, or adding chemical preservatives; includes (mechanically separated) lunch meat (like salami), as well as hotdogs and sausage
Definitions
- Any meat that has been modified to preserve or improve its flavor through methods like smoking, curing, salting, or adding chemical preservatives; includes (mechanically separated) lunch meat (like salami), as well as hotdogs and sausage
Ancestry of “processed meat”, step by step
processed meat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English processed
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | processed | That has completed a required process; Modified... |
| 2 | English | process | A series of events which produce a result; A set... |
| 3 | English | procession | The act of progressing or proceeding; A group of... |
| 4 | Middle English | processioun | — |
| 5 | Old French | pourciession | procession |
| 6 | Latin | processio | advance; procession |
| 7 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 8 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 9 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 10 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 11 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 12 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 13 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 14 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via English meat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | meat | The flesh of an animal used as food; A type of... |
| 2 | Middle English | mete | Food, nourishment or comestibles; that which is... |
| 3 | Middle English | bake mete | Any kind of cooked food which has a pastry... |
| 4 | Middle English | baken | To bake; to cook in an oven; usually used of... |
| 5 | Old English | bacan | to bake |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | bakan | to bake |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | bakaną | to bake |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₃g- | to bake, to roast, to fry |