Etymograph

English

cep

Cep comes from French cèpe ‘cep, porcini’, and goes back to Latin cippus ‘stake’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcippus1‘stake’
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentGascon2
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentcèpe1‘cep, porcini’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2015cep1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English cep
  2. 2 Wiktionary, French cèpe
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2015, David Khayat, W. W. Norton & Company: “Ask yourself this question: How do we know that…”.

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcippusWiktionary, English cep‘stake’
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentGasconWiktionary, French cèpe
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentcèpeWiktionary, English cep‘cep, porcini’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2015cepWiktionary, English cep. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2015, David Khayat, W. W. Norton & Company: “Ask yourself this question: How do we know that…”

Linked words

through French Gascon

cadet

Today it means

noun An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis).

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “cep”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for French cèpe. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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