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before 900; Middle English pese, Old English peose, pise < Late Latin pisa feminine singular use of plural of Latin pisum (neuter) < Greek píson pea, pulse
before 900; Middle English pese, Old English peose, pise < Late Latin pisa feminine singular use of plural of Latin pisum (neuter) < Greek píson pea, pulse
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pease·like, adjective
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noun Also called English pea, garden pea, green pea (for defs. 1, 2).
1.
the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
2.
the plant itself.
3.
the green, somewhat inflated pod of this plant.
4.
any of various related or similar plants or their seed, as the chickpea.
5.
something resembling a pea, especially in being small and round.
adjective
6.
pertaining to, growing, containing, or cooked with peas: We cultivated some tomato vines and a pea patch.
7.
small or small and round (usually used in combination).
Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English; back formation from pease, taken as plural
1275–1325; Middle English; back formation from pease, taken as plural
Related forms
pea·like, adjective
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| pease (piːz) | |
| —n , pl pease | |
| an archaic or dialect word for pea | |
| [Old English peose, via Late Latin from Latin pisa peas, pl of pisum, from Greek pison] | |
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Word Origin & History
pea
17c., false singular from M.E. pease (pl. pesen), which was both single and collective (e.g. wheat, corn) but was mistaken for a plural, from O.E. pise (W.Saxon), piose (Mercian) "pea," from L.L. pisa, variant of L. pisum "pea," from Gk. pison, perhaps of Thracian or Phrygian origin. Pea soup is first
EXPANDrecorded 1711 (pease-soup); applied to London fogs since at least 1849. In Breton, piz, lit. "peas," also means "stingy," perhaps as a semantic borrowing of Fr. chiche "stingy," lit. "small," which also happens to be a homonym of chiche "peas." The Fr. word for small ultimately may be from L. ciccum, the same root as the word for "peas."
pease
O.E., see pea, of which this is the etymologically correct form.
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