precocious

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 228 words | Copyright

precocious flowering or fruiting early; prematurely developed. XXII. f. L. præcox, -coc-, f. præcoquere boil beforehand, ripen fully, f. præ- PRE- + coquere cook; see -IOUS.
So precosity XVII. — F. or modL.

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