English
brassica
Brassica comes from Latin brassica ‘especially cabbage, but including cauliflower…’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbrassica‘especially cabbage, but including cauliflower and other varieties of Brassica oleracea’
- Englishearliest quotation 1930brassica
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbrassica‘especially cabbage, but including cauliflower and other varieties of Brassica oleracea’
- Englishearliest quotation 1930brassica
Earliest quotation: 1930, Welsh Journal of Agriculture: “The destruction of the roots of brassicae by the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sek- ‘to cut’
saw, design, ship, sign, seal, sack, sawyer, scarlet, sax, shingle, scythe, sedge, sich, sigil, sain, desiccation, desiccant, 59 more
through Proto-Italic *sekaō ‘to cut’
sexuality, homosexual, dissection, 18 more
through Latin secō ‘to cut, to cut off’
sex, risk, section, sexual, segment, insect, het, sickle, dissect, seg, 21 more
Today it means
noun Any of many plants of the genus Brassica, including cabbage, mustard and rapes
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin brassica / brassica