Etymology

saussurea

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Today it means: Any thistle of the genus Saussurea. Full definition →

translingual Saussurea ← French Saussure
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The story

  1. French · derived fromSaussure
  2. translingual · borrowed fromSaussurea
  3. English todaysaussurea

Borrowed from translingual Saussurea, itself from French Saussure (surname), after Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure.

Words from the same roots

translingualSaussurea all →

saussurine

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.