Where does “fougère” come from?

fougère (French) comes from Old French fulgiere, from Vulgar Latin filicaria, from Latin filix — fern.

fougère (French): fern

Definitions

  1. fern

Ancestry of “fougère”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchfulgiere—
2Vulgar Latinfilicariathicket of ferns
3Latinfilixfern

Words derived from “fougère”

Every word from Latin filix →Every word from Vulgar Latin filicaria →Every word from Old French fulgiere →
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