The story
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
- Proto-Italic*prai
- Proto-Italic*prai-
- Latinprae-
- Proto-Indo-European*pekʷ-
- Proto-Indo-European*pékʷeti
- Proto-Italic*kʷekʷō
- Latin*quoquō
- Latincoquō
- Latinpraecoquō
- Latinpraecoquus
- Latinpraecoquum
- Ancient Greekβερίκοκκον (beríkokkon)
- Medieval Greekβερικοκκῐ́ᾱ (berikokkĭ́ā)
- Classical Syriacܒܰܪܩܽܘܩܳܐ (barqūqā)
- Arabicبَرْقُوق (barqūq)
- Andalusian Arabicبَرْقُوق (barqūq)
- Catalanalbercoc
- Catalanarbreinflu.
- Catalanabrecoc
- Englishabrecock
- Latinapricuminflu.
- Englishapricock
- Frenchabricotinflu.
- English todayapricot
Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum (“sunny place”)), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Medieval Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”). Doublet of precocious.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.