The story
- Latin · derived fromcicer“chickpea”
- Old French · derived fromcice
- French · calque ofpois chiche
- English todaychickpea
Calque of French pois chiche, from pois (“pea”) + chiche, from Old French cice, from Latin cicer (“chickpea”).
Words from the same roots
Latincicer all →
chich
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.