Etymology

spicket

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Middle English spigot ← Latin spīca ← Old Occitan espiga
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The story

  1. Old French · derived from[Term?]
  2. Old Occitan · derived fromespiga
  3. Latin · derived fromspīca
  4. Middle English · inherited fromspigot“wooden stopper”
  5. English todayspicket

From Middle English spigot (“wooden stopper”). Probably ultimately from Latin spīca via Old Occitan espiga and one or more dialects of Old French [Term?].

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishspigot all →

Latinspīca all →

spigotspicaspiciform

Old Occitanespiga all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.