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
  • IPA(key): /pretˈt͡se.mo.lo/
  • Hyphenation: prez‧zé‧mo‧lo

Noun

prezzemolo m (plural prezzemoli)

  1. parsley (plant and herb)

References
  1. http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/
  2. Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “prezzemolo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
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