Where does “letuse” come from?

letuse (Middle English) comes from Old French laitue, from Latin lactūca, from Latin lác, from Proto-Indo-European ǵlákts — milk.

letuse (Middle English): lettuce; The leaves of the lettuce used as...

Definitions

  1. lettuce; The leaves of the lettuce used as...

Ancestry of “letuse”, step by step

letuse traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French laitue

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchlaituelettuce
2Latinlactūcalettuce (Lactuca sativa), wolf's milk (Lactuca maritima), and other Lactuca species
3Latinlácmilk
4Proto-Indo-Europeanǵláktsmilk

via Anglo-Norman letuse

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normanletuse—

Words derived from “letuse”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵlákts →Every word from Latin lác →Every word from Latin lactūca →