vetch
Meaningvetch
Common meaning: climbing or trailing plant of the pea family
- vetchvetchSkeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), p. 685 · scan
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√WIK‘bind, fasten’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 368, p. 743 · scan
- Latinvicia‘vetch’source
- Old Frenchvece‘vesse, later vesce’source
- Englishmeaning shiftsvesse, later vesce → climbing or trailing plant of the pea familyvetch‘climbing or trailing plant of the pea family’ · 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: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin vicia ‘vetch’.
Roots
- vicia Latin “vetch”
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