Etymology

pineal

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Today it means: In the shape of a pine cone. Full definition →

French pinéal ← Latin pīnea
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompīnea“pine cone, pine nut”
  2. French · derived frompinéal
  3. English todaypineal

From French pinéal, from Middle French, from Latin pīnea (“pine cone, pine nut”), from pīneus (“of the pine”).

Words from the same roots

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piñata

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.