Etymology

melocoton

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Today it means: A kind of yellow-fleshed peach having red skin Full definition →

Spanish melocotón ← Latin mālum cotōnium ← Ancient Greek μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion)
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The story

  1. Latinmālum
  2. Latincotōnium
  3. Ancient Greekμηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion)
  4. Latinmālum cotōnium
  5. Spanishmelóninflu.
  6. Spanishmelocotón
  7. English todaymelocoton

Borrowed from Spanish melocotón (“peach tree and its fruit”), from Latin mālum cotōnium (“quince, or quince tree”, literally “apple of Cydonia”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.