Where does “cooing” come from?

cooing (Old French) comes from Late Latin cotoneum, from Latin malum cotoneum, from Latin malum Cydonium — Cydonian apple.

cooing (Old French): quince

Definitions

  1. quince

Ancestry of “cooing”, step by step

cooing traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Late Latin cotoneum

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Late Latincotoneuma quince
2Latinmalum cotoneumAlternative form of mālum cotōnium; quince tree
3Latinmalum CydoniumCydonian apple

via Latin cotōneum

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latincotōneuma quince (fruit)
2Ancient Greekκυδώνιονquince

Words derived from “cooing”

Every word from Latin malum Cydonium →Every word from Latin malum cotoneum →Every word from Late Latin cotoneum →