Where does “pruning” come from?

Pruning derives from English prune, from Old French proignier, which blended Old French prune with Latin rotundus and rota, tracing ultimately to Proto-Indo-European pro-.

pruning (English): A removal of excess material from a tree or...

Definitions

  1. A removal of excess material from a tree or...

Ancestry of “pruning”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpruneA plum; The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain...
2Middle EnglishpruneA plum; A prune; A large, rounded boil
3Old Frenchpruneplum
4Vulgar LatinprunaA burning coal, live coal, glowing charcoal
5Latinprūnumplum
6Ancient Greekπροῦνον—
7Ancient GreekπροῦμνονA plum fruit

Words derived from “pruning”

Every word from Ancient Greek προῦμνον →Every word from Ancient Greek προῦνον →Every word from Latin prūnum →