persil

Going back to Old French peresil, from Latin petroselīnum, from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon, “parsley”, literally “stone celery”).

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persil f (singulative persilen)

1. parsley

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persil

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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”).

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.si/, /pɛʁ.sil/

• Audio; “le persil”:

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

persil m (countable and uncountable, plural persils)

1. parsley

• persillade

• “persil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• périls, replis

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.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: pèr‧sil

pèrsil

1. a parcel of land, a plot.

• “persil” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

persil (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of persely