Where does “quince” come from?
Quince comes from Middle English quince, from Middle English coin, from Middle English coyn, from Latin cotoneum, from Latin cuneus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₂eḱ-.
quince (English): The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose...
Definitions
- The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose...
Ancestry of “quince”, step by step
quince traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English quinceañera
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | quinceañera | The fifteenth birthday and particularly the... |
| 2 | Spanish | quinceañera | female equivalent of quinceañero:... |
| 3 | Spanish | quince | fifteen |
| 4 | Old Spanish | quinze | fifteen |
| 5 | Latin | quindecim | fifteen; 15 |
| 6 | Latin | decem | ten; 10 |
| 7 | Latin | -nus | -an |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -nos | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -nós | Creates verbal adjectives from roots |
via Middle English quynce
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | quynce | quince; The fruit of this tree |
| 2 | Middle English | coyns | plural of coyn; quinces |
| 3 | Middle English | -es | Alternative form of -yssh; Alternative form of... |
| 4 | Old English | -es | possessive marker, indicating that an object... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -as | used in formation of adverbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ēs | Primarily forms adjectival bahuvrīhi compounds |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ess | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |