Etymology

lemonade

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Today it means: A flavored beverage consisting of water, lemon, and sweetener, sometimes ice, served mainly as a refreshment. (In the UK and Ireland, generally specified as still, cloudy, or traditional lemonade.) Full definition →

French limonade ← Italian limóne ← Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn)
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The story

  1. Sanskritनिम्बू (nimbū)
  2. Classical Persianلِیمُو (līmū)
  3. Arabicلَيْمُون (laymūn)
  4. Italianlimóne
  5. Frenchlimon
  6. Frenchlimonade
  7. English todaylemonade

Borrowed from French limonade. By surface analysis, lemon + -ade.

Words from the same roots

Frenchlimonade all →

limonade

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.