Etymology

pruce

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Today it means: Prussian leather. Full definition →

Middle English Pruce
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromPruce“Prussia”
  2. English todaypruce

From Middle English Pruce (“Prussia”) (whence also spruce), from new Latin, from a Baltic language, probably Old Prussian; for more, see Prussia. Compare French Prusse.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.