different between chicory vs escarole

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English cicoree, cicory, cicorea, sicory, sycory (“common chicory (Cichorium intybus); heliotrope”), from Old French cicoree (modern French chicorée (“common chicory; endive; coffee substitute made from common chicory”)), or directly from its etymon Medieval Latin cicorea, cichorea, *cich?ria, from Latin cichorium, cichoreum (“common chicory; endive”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kíkhora), ???????? (kikhóreia), neuter plural of ???????? (kikh?rion, “chicory”). The English word is cognate with Italian cicórea, and is a doublet of succory.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??k??i/, /?t??k?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??k??i/
• Hyphenation: chi?co?ry

Noun

chicory (countable and uncountable, plural chicories)

1. (countable, botany) Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family.
   1. (chiefly Britain) The common chicory (Cichorium intybus), the source of Belgian endive, radicchio, and sugarloaf.

      Synonyms: blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailor, blue weed, chicory button, coffeeweed, cornflower, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailor, succory, wild bachelor's button, wild endive
   2. (chiefly Canada, US) The endive (Cichorium endivia), the source of escarole and frisée.
2. (uncountable, cooking) A coffee substitute made from the roasted roots of the common chicory, sometimes used as a cheap adulterant in real coffee.

Alternative forms

• chiccory (dated)
• chickory

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• treviso

References

Further reading

• chicory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cichorium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• hiccory

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French escarole, from Italian scariola, scarola (“chicory; endive”), from Late Latin escariola, scariola, from Latin ?sca (“food; dish prepared for the table”) (from ed? (“to eat”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ed- (“to eat”)) + -ola (from -olus, -ulus (suffix forming diminutive nouns)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??sk????l/, /-??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??sk??o?l/
• Hyphenation: es?ca?role

Noun

escarole (usually uncountable, plural escaroles)

1. (Canada, US) A subspecies or variety of broad-leaved endive (Cichorium endivia subsp. endivia, syn. Cichorium endivia var. latifolium), which is eaten as a vegetable. [from early 20th c.]

Coordinate terms

• frisée lettuce, frisée

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Cichorium
• Cichorium endivia

References

Further reading

• endive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cichorium endivia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Cichorium endivia at USDA Plants database

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?s.ka.??l/

Noun

escarole f (plural escaroles)

1. Dated form of scarole (“broad-leaved endive”).

Descendants

• ? English: escarole