Etymology

chich

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Today it means: The chickpea. Full definition →

French chiche ← Latin cicer
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromcicer“the chickpea”
  2. French · derived fromchiche
  3. English todaychich

From French chiche, pois chiche (“a dwarf pea”), from Latin cicer (“the chickpea”).

Words from the same roots

Latincicer all →

chickpea

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.