When you say 'pumpkin' are you speaking French (USA)?

'Pumpkin' is a word borrowed from French (USA) 'pompon'. The word entered the English language some time around 1654.

pumpkin [noun] [1654]

• a fruit of any of various cultivars of herbaceous plants ( and Cucurbita pepo, C. maxima, C. moschata, syn. ) of the go...
• any of several annual chiefly trailing American plants that bear
• a strong orange color

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Etymology: Alteration of earlier 'pumpion' modification of French 'popon, pompon' melon, pumpkin, from Latin 'pepon-, pepo' from Greek 'pepōn' from 'pepōn' ripened; akin to Greek 'pessein' to cook, ripen

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