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Where does “passenep” come from?

passenep (Middle English) comes from Old French pasnaie, from Latin pastinaca, from Latin pastinum — A kind of two-pronged dibble; The action of...

Ancestry of “passenep”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchpasnaie—
2Latinpastinacaparsnip; stingray
3LatinpastinumA kind of two-pronged dibble; The action of...

Words derived from “passenep”

  • parsnip
  • parsniplike
  • parsnepe
  • parsnippy
  • parsnipy
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