Etymology

Fresno

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Today it means: A city, the county seat of Fresno County, in central California, United States. Full definition →

Spanish fresno ← Old Spanish fresno ← Latin fraxinus
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰerHǵós
  2. Proto-Italic*frā̆ksinos
  3. Latinfraxinus
  4. Old Spanishfresno
  5. Spanishfresno
  6. English todayFresno

Borrowed from Spanish fresno (“ash tree”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.