persil

See also: Persil

Cornish

Del persil

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French persil, peresil (possibly via Middle English persely), from Latin petroselīnum, from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon, “parsley”, literally “stone celery”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɹsɪl/

Noun

persil (collective, singulative persilen f)

1. parsley

Mutation

Mutation of persil

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
persil	bersil	fersil	unchanged	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French persil, peresil, perresil, inherited from Latin petroselīnum (possibly through a Vulgar Latin *petrosīnu, compare Sicilian pitrusinu and the Old French variant persin, later with the suffix -il; or through Early Medieval Latin petrosilio), itself from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone”) + σέλῑνον (sélīnon, “celery”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.sil/, /pɛʁ.si/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.si/

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• Rhymes: -i, -il
• Hyphenation: per‧sil

Noun

persil m (countable and uncountable, plural persils)

1. parsley

Derived terms

• persillade

Further reading

• “persil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• périls, replis

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch perceel, from Middle Dutch perceel, from older parcheel, from Old French parcelle, from Late Latin particella, from Latin particula. Doublet of partikel and parsel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛrsɪl]
• Hyphenation: pèr‧sil

Noun

pèrsil (plural persil-persil)

1. a parcel of land, a plot

Further reading

• “persil”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Middle English

Noun

persil

1. alternative form of persely