Etymology

cornel

cor·nel
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Today it means: Any tree or shrub of the dogwood subgenera, Cornus subg. Arctocrania (syn. Cornus subg. Chamaepericlymenum) or Cornus subg. Cornus, especially Cornus mas, the European cornel. Full definition →

Middle English corneille ← Middle French corneille ← Vulgar Latin *cornicula
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromcornus“the European cornel”
  2. Vulgar Latin · derived from*cornicula
  3. Middle French · derived fromcorneille
  4. Middle English · inherited fromcorneille
  5. English todaycornel

From Middle English corneille, borrowed from Middle French corneille, from Vulgar Latin *cornicula, from Latin cornus (“the European cornel”).

Words from the same roots

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