prezzemolo
Italian
Etymology
From a contraction/syncopation of an earlier pretosemolo, with metathesis from petrosemolo, from a Vulgar Latin *petrosenilo (with influence from semen)[1], itself with metathesis from Latin petroselīnum[2], from Ancient Greek πετροσέλινον (petrosélinon), from πέτρα (pétra, “stone”) + σέλινον (sélinon, “celery”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: prez‧zé‧mo‧lo
Noun
prezzemolo m (plural prezzemoli)
- parsley (plant and herb)
References
- ^ http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/
- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “prezzemolo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati