Meaning

noun herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds

noun stalks eaten like celery or candied like angelica; seeds used for flavoring or pickled like capers

originFrom Middle English loveache, a folk-etymological alteration, after love and ache (“parsley”), of Anglo-Norman luvasche and Old French luvache, loveche et al., and Middle French levesche, from Latin levisticum, probably alteration of Latin ligusticum, substantivization of the neuter of Ligusticus (“Ligurian”), ultimately from Ancient Greek Λιγυστικός (Ligustikós, “Ligurian”), from Λίγυς (Lígus,…

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