The story
- Italian · derived fromfrangipane
- French · borrowed fromfrangipane
- English todayfrangipani
From French frangipane, from Italian frangipane. Possibly named after Muzio Frangipane, a 16th-century marquess of the Italian noble Frangipani family, who invented a plumeria-scented perfume. The name Frangipane derives from frangere (“to break”) + pane (“bread”), a reference to the family's distribution of bread in time of famine.
Words from the same roots
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