English
Pop
Pop may come from Latin popīna ‘cookshop’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpopīna‘cookshop’uncertain
- EnglishtodayPop
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpopīna‘cookshop’uncertain
- EnglishtodayPop
The story
The OED suggests either from (lolli)pop ("because the meetings were held in the rooms of Mrs Hatton, who kept the lollipop shop"), or from Latin popīna (‘cookshop’). The second sense derives from the first.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- ‘to cook’
coach, cook, kitchen, pumpkin, cuisine, culinary, kiln, concoction, ricotta, quitter, concoct, peptic, decoction, dyspepsia, 14 more
Today it means
noun A social club and debating society at Eton College.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin popīna / Pop