means A pale, cream-colored root vegetable with a sweet, earthy flavor, related to the carrot and eaten cooked.

from From Latin 'pastinaca,' the Roman name for the plant — likely linked to 'pastinum,' a two-pronged digging fork used to lift such roots from the ground. The word traveled through Old French ('pasnaie') into Middle English, where it picked up an extra '-p' by association with words like 'turnip' and 'neep,' the old word for turnip.