Etymology

agri-food

Today it means: The business of producing food agriculturally (as opposed to through hunting, fishing, gathering, and so on); food so produced. Full definition →

English food ← Middle English fode ← Old English fōda
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂eǵ-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éǵros
  3. Proto-Italic*agros
  4. Latinager
  5. Englishagri-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*peh₂-
  7. Proto-Germanic*fōdô
  8. Old Englishfōda
  9. Middle Englishfode
  10. Englishfood
  11. English todayagri-food

From agri- + food.

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