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
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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 | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -nós | Creates verbal adjectives from roots |
Words derived from “quince”