The story
- Latin · derived frombombus
- Occitan · derived fromboumbouno m
- French · borrowed frombonbonne f
- English todaybonbonne
Borrowed from French bonbonne f, from Occitan boumbouno m [from boumbo + -ouno, ultimately from Latin bombus and -ōnem], made feminine in French under the influence of French bonne (unrelated), and with change of bomb- to bonb- under the influence of French bonbon (also unrelated). Although less common in French, the spelling bombonne more accurately reflects the Latin bomb- root.
Words from the same roots
Latinbombus all →
boundbombardbombus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.