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celery

/ˈseləi/SEH-lur-ee
/ˈsɛlɚi/SEH-lur-ee

Meaningparsley-like plant

Common meaning: crisp-stemmed salad vegetable

Journey through time

  1. Greekselinon‘parsley-like plant’source
  2. Italianseleri‘celery’source
  3. Frenchmeaning shiftsparsley-like plant → introduced from proyceleri‘introduced from proy’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsintroduced from proy → crisp-stemmed salad vegetablecelery‘crisp-stemmed salad vegetable’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Greek selinon ‘parsley-like plant’.

Roots

  • selinon Greek “parsley-like plant”

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