Where does “circée” come from?

circée (French) comes from Middle French Circée, from Latin Circaeus, from Ancient Greek Κιρκαῖος, from Ancient Greek Κίρκη, from Ancient Greek -ή, from Ancient Greek -ᾱ, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

circée (French): enchanter's nightshade (Circaea)

Definitions

  1. enchanter's nightshade (Circaea)

Ancestry of “circée”, step by step

circée traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle French Circée

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle FrenchCircéethe
2LatinCircaeusCircean
3Ancient GreekΚιρκαῖοςCircean
4Ancient GreekΚίρκηCirce
5Ancient Greeksuffix of feminine nouns in the [[Appendix:Ancient Greek first declension
6Ancient Greek-ᾱnominal suffix
7Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via Translingual Circaea

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TranslingualCircaeagenus
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂Every word from Ancient Greek Every word from Ancient Greek Κίρκη