Etymology

fumet

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Today it means: A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet. Full definition →

French fumet ← Latin fumus
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fumet · noun1

  1. Latin · derived fromfumus“smoke”
  2. French · derived fromfumet“aroma”
  3. English todayfumet

From the French fumet (“aroma”), from Latin fumus (“smoke”). Doublet of fumetto.

fumet · noun2

Compare French fumier dung, Old French femier, from Latin fimum (“dung”). See fewmet.

Words from the same roots

Frenchfumet all →

Latinfumus all →

fumefemerellfumagefumarine

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