vanilje.
Vanilla (a taxonomic genus within the family Orchidaceae – vanilla orchids)
Meaning & usage
Vanilla (a taxonomic genus within the family Orchidaceae – vanilla orchids)
vanilla (a tropical climbing orchid (Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes)
vanilla (the fruit or bean of the vanilla plant)
ice cream with vanilla flavour
Where this word comes from
From French vanille (“vanilla”), from Spanish vainilla (“vanilla”), from both vaina (“pod”), from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”), from Proto-Italic *wāgīnā (“sheath, scabbard”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wag- (“sheath, cover”), and the suffix -illa (diminutive), from Old Spanish -iella, from Latin -ella(m), of -ellus, a form of -ulus, from Proto-Italic *-olos, from *-elos, from Proto-Indo-European *-e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European *-lós (forms agent nouns from verbal roots). Doublet of vagina. Cognate with Danish vanilje, Dutch vanille, German Vanille, Swedish vanilj and English vanilla.
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