The story
- Latin · borrowed fromracēmus“cluster, bunch”
- English todayraceme
Borrowed from Latin racēmus (“cluster, bunch”). Doublet of raisin.
Words from the same roots
Latinracēmus all →
raisinracemic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
raceme
Today it means: An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis. Full definition →
Latin racēmus