chicorée

Inherited from Old French cicoree (probably later influenced by Italian cicoria), borrowed from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *cichōria, from Latin cichōrium, from Ancient Greek κιχώριον (kikhṓrion).

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.kɔ.ʁe/

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chicorée f (plural chicorées)

1. (botany) chicory (Cichorium intybus (“common chicory”) or Cichorium endivia)
2. (by extension, cooking) the coffee substitute prepared from the roasted roots of the common chicory

• Chicorée amère, Cichorium intybus
• Chicorée endive, Cichorium endivia
• chicorée industrielle, chicorée à café or chicorée à torréfier, Cichorium intybus subsp. intybus var. sativum
• Chicorée sauvage, Cichorium intybus

• → German: Chicorée, Schikoree (older spelling)
• → Greek: σικορέ (sikoré)

• endive

• chicorée on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• chicorée (boisson) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “chicorée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.