Etymograph

English

puree

Puree comes from Old French purer ‘to make pure’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *pewH- ‘to cleanse, purify’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pewH-1‘to cleanse, purify’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pūros1reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpūrus2‘pure’
  4. Late Latinmodernpurare2
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400purer2‘to make pure’
  6. Old Frenchc. 842–1400puree2
  7. Frenchc. 1600–presentpurée3
  8. Englishtodaypuree3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin purus
  2. 2 Wiktionary, French purée
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English puree

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pewH-Wiktionary, Latin purus‘to cleanse, purify’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pūrosWiktionary, Latin purusreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpūrusWiktionary, French purée‘pure’
  4. Late LatinmodernpurareWiktionary, French purée
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400purerWiktionary, French purée‘to make pure’
  6. Old Frenchc. 842–1400pureeWiktionary, French purée
  7. Frenchc. 1600–presentpuréeWiktionary, English puree
  8. EnglishtodaypureeWiktionary, English puree

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *pewH- ‘to cleanse, purify’

deputy, reputation, pity, pious, piety, putative, expiation, puro, 15 more

through Proto-Italic *pūros

impurity, 7 more

through Latin pūrus ‘pure’

purity, purification, purify, impure, purist, 8 more

through Old French purer ‘to make pure’

pour

Today it means

noun A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid or paste.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “puree”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin purus, French purée. 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.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *pewH- / puree

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