Noun: pork
Sample Sentences
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The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.
Nouns inflected like pork
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos
5. Proto-Italic *porkos
6. Latin porcus
7. Old French porcbor.
8. Middle English pork
9. English pork
10. From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”).
11. Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. Compare also other West Germanic words for pigs: Ferkel, Ferke, and varken.
12. Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century.
13. US politics sense is related to pork barrel. See: Middle English Nouns '
pork', Latin Nouns '
porcus', Old English Nouns '
fearh'.
Verbs referencing "pork"
Finnish Nouns
porsas.