Where does “pêcher” come from?

pêcher (French) comes from French pêche, from Middle French pesche, from Old French pesche, from Vulgar Latin pessica, from Late Latin persica, from Latin persicum, from Latin Persae — inflection of Persa: ## genitive/dative...

pêcher (French): to fish; peach tree

Definitions

  1. to fish; peach tree

Ancestry of “pêcher”, step by step

pêcher traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French pêche

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpêchepeach; form, energy; fishing, angling
2Middle Frenchpeschepeach
3Old Frenchpeschepeach
4Vulgar Latinpessica—
5Late Latinpersica—
6Latinpersicumpeach
7LatinPersaeinflection of Persa: ## genitive/dative...

via Old French peschier

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchpeschierto fish
2LatinpiscorI fish
3LatinPiscisthe Fish, Piscis Austrinus constellation
4Proto-Indo-European*peysk-—

Words derived from “pêcher”

Every word from Latin Persae →Every word from Latin persicum →Every word from Late Latin persica →