Where does “locuste” come from?

locuste (Middle English) comes from Latin locusta, from Proto-Indo-European lēk- — string, twig, tendril; leg, the main muscle of...

locuste (Middle English): locust

Definitions

  1. locust

Ancestry of “locuste”, step by step

locuste traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin locusta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlocustalocust, grasshopper; crustacean, marine...
2Proto-Indo-Europeanlēk-string, twig, tendril; leg, the main muscle of...

via Middle French locuste

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchlocuste—

Words derived from “locuste”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European lēk- →Every word from Latin locusta →