Where does “brassica” come from?

brassica (Latin) comes from Proto-Celtic bresic.

brassica (Latin): especially cabbage, but including cauliflower and...

Definitions

  1. especially cabbage, but including cauliflower and...

Ancestry of “brassica”, step by step

brassica traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Celtic bresic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Celticbresic

via Proto-Celtic bresych

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Celticbresychcabbage

Words derived from “brassica

Every word from Proto-Celtic bresic
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