Where does “Latin çiçeği” come from?

Latin çiçeği (Turkish) comes from Turkish çiçek, from Ottoman Turkish چیچك, from Proto-Turkic čeček — flower.

Latin çiçeği (Turkish): nasturtium (any member of the genus Tropaeolum)

Definitions

  1. nasturtium (any member of the genus Tropaeolum)

Ancestry of “Latin çiçeği”, step by step

Latin çiçeği traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish çiçek

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishçiçekflower; blossom; smallpox, variola
2Ottoman Turkishچیچكflower; blossom; smallpox, variola
3Proto-Turkicčečekflower

via Turkish Latin

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TurkishLatin—
Every word from Proto-Turkic čeček →Every word from Ottoman Turkish چیچك →Every word from Turkish çiçek →