The story
- Latin · derived fromfermentāre“to leaven, ferment”
- Middle French · derived fromferment
- Middle English · inherited fromferment
- English todayferment
From Middle English ferment, from Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentāre (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), possibly from contraction of *fervimentum, from fervēre. See also fervent.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.