The story
- Old French · derived fromdigestion
- English todaydigestion
From Old French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English melting (“melting, digestion”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
digestion
Today it means: The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be used by the body. Full definition →
Old French digestion