Etymograph

English

raspberry

Raspberry may come from Latin; the Latin form is not named.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEform not nameduncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1903raspberry

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEform not nameduncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1903raspberry

Earliest quotation: 1903, M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich: “[…] she stuck burrs in my bed and lead…”

The story

From earlier raspis berry, possibly from raspise (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-Latin vinum raspeys, of uncertain origin.uncertain The source flags this step as uncertain. Possibly related to rasp (‘coarse, rough’), of Germanic origin.

Today it means

noun The plant Rubus idaeus.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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