Etymology

spigot

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Today it means: A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask. Full definition →

Middle English spigot ← Middle French espigeot ← Latin spīca
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*spey-der.?
  2. Proto-Italic*speikā
  3. Latinspīca
  4. Middle Frenchespigeot
  5. Middle Englishspigot
  6. English todayspigot

From Middle English spigot (“wooden stopper”). Probably ultimately from Latin spīca via Old Occitan espiga and Middle French espigeot.

Words from the same roots

Latinspīca all →

spicaspiciform

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