Season
Middle English: from Old French seson, from Latin satio(n- ) ‘sowing’, later ‘time of sowing’, from the root of serere ‘to sow’.
wiktionary
From Middle English sesoun, seson(“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison(“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō(“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō(“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-(“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan(“to sow”), sǣd(“seed”). Displaced native Middle English sele(“season”) (from Old English sǣl(“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide(“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd(“time, period, yeartide, season”)).
From French assaisonner.
etymonline
season (n.)
c. 1300, "a period of the year," with reference to weather or work, also "proper time, suitable occasion," from Old French seison, also saison "season, date; right moment, appropriate time" (Modern French saison) "a sowing, planting," from Latin sationem (nominative satio) "a sowing, planting," noun of action from past participle stem of serere "to sow" (from PIE root *sē- "to sow").
Sense shifted in Vulgar Latin from "act of sowing" to "time of sowing," especially "spring, regarded as the chief sowing season." In Old Provençal and Old French (and thus in English), this was extended to "season" in general. In other Indo-European languages, generic "season" (of the year) words typically are from words for "time," sometimes with a word for "year" (as in Latin tempus (anni), German Jahreszeit). Of game (as in out of season) from late 14c. Spanish estacion, Italian stagione are unrelated, being from Latin statio "station."
Meaning "time of year during which a place is most frequented" is from 1705. Season ticket is attested from 1820.
season (v.)
"improve the flavor of by adding spices," c. 1300, from Old French assaisoner "to ripen, season," from a- "to" (see ad-) + root of season (n.) on the notion of fruit becoming more palatable as it ripens. Applied to timber by 1540s. In 16c., it also meant "to copulate with."
