Harvested
/ˈhɑːr.vɪstɪd/noun
Past tense and past participle of harvest, meaning gathered in a crop or collected something for later use.
Did you know?The English word harvest comes from Old English hærfest, meaning “autumn” or “time of gathering,” before it narrowed into the agricultural act we use today.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*kerp-
“to pluck, gather, harvest”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*harbitaz
“autumn; harvest-time”
Old English
Anglo-Saxon
hærfest
“autumn; season of gathering crops”
Middle English
English
harvest
“the gathering of ripe crops; autumn”
Modern English
English
harvested
“gathered in crops or collected something for later use”