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English word Cheetos comes from Latin caseum, and later Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz ((Northwest Germanic) cheese.)
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caseum (Latin)
*kāsijaz (Proto-Germanic)
(Northwest Germanic) cheese.
cese (Old English)
(Anglian) cheese.
ċȳse (Old English)
chese (Middle English)
cheese (English)
(slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.. (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.. To prepare curds for making cheese. (photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling. (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.. (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.. [...]
Cheetos (English)
A crunchy, cheese-flavored snack made from extruded cornmeal.