Etymology

famine

fam·ine
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Today it means: Extreme shortage of food in a region. Full definition →

Middle French famine ← Latin fames
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfames
  2. Middle French · borrowed fromfamine
  3. English todayfamine

Borrowed from Middle French famine, itself from the root of Latin fames.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.