mousseron
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French mouceron, from Old French moisserun, moisseron (compare Late Latin mussirio, Occitan mossalon, Catalan moixernó), of uncertain origin:
- Probably ultimately derived from Old French mosse, moise (“moss”), of Germanic origin, from Old Dutch *mos, from Frankish *mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą, as the type of fungus so-named applied to one which grows in moss.
- Klein and Watkins prefer a pre-Roman substrate origin, if the earlier form was something like Vulgar Latin *mussariōn.[1]
More at mushroom.
Pronunciation
Noun
mousseron m (plural mousserons)
References
- ^ “mushroom”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
- “mousseron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.