The story
- Phoenician · derived from[Term?]
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκιννάμωμον
- Latin · derived fromcinnamon
- Old French · derived fromcinnamone
- Middle English · inherited fromsynamome
- English todaycinnamon
From Middle English synamome, from Old French cinnamone, from Latin cinnamon, cinnamomum, from Ancient Greek κιννάμωμον (kinnámōmon), later κίνναμον (kínnamon), according to Herodotus from Phoenician [Term?], cognate with Hebrew קִנָּמוֹן (qinnāmōn).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.