The story
- Latin · derived fromfundere“to melt”
- French · borrowed fromfondant“melting”
- English todayfondant
19th century. Unadapted borrowing from French fondant (“melting”), from fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fundere (“to melt”).
Words from the same roots
Frenchfondant all →
fondon
Latinfundere all →
foundfontmorfound
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.