Where does “season” come from?
Season comes from French assaisonner, which combines the prefix a- (from Ancient Greek ἀ- and Latin ad-) with a root from Proto-Indo-European ser-.
season (English): Each of the four divisions of a year: spring,...
Definitions
- Each of the four divisions of a year: spring,...
Ancestry of “season”, step by step
season traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French assaisonner
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | assaisonner | to season |
| 2 | French | saison | season |
| 3 | Old French | saison | season |
| 4 | Latin | satiō | to satisfy |
| 5 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 6 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 7 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 8 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 10 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 11 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |