Where does “pere” come from?

pere (Old English) comes from Latin pirum — a pear.

pere (Old English): pear

Definitions

  1. pear

Ancestry of “pere”, step by step

pere traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin pirum

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpiruma pear

via Proto-West Germanic *peru

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*perupear

Words derived from “pere

Every word from Latin pirum