Where does “puree” come from?

puree (Old French) comes from French purer, from Old French purer, from Latin purare, from Latin pūrus, from Proto-Indo-European pewH- — to be clean, pure.

Ancestry of “puree”, step by step

puree traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French purer

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	purer	to make pure
2	Old French	purer	to purify
3	Latin	purare	—
4	Latin	pūrus	clear, limpid
5	Proto-Indo-European	pewH-	to be clean, pure

via Latin puro

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Latin	puro	dative masculine singular of pūrus; dative neuter...
2	Latin	-ō	suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
3	Proto-Indo-European	-ō	Derives nouns from roots

Words derived from “puree”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pewH- →Every word from Latin pūrus →Every word from Latin purare →