Etymology

mandelbrot

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Today it means: A sort of cookie-like hard, sweet bread usually containing almonds traditionally eaten by Ashkenazi Jews and often dipped in tea. Full definition →

German Mandelbrot
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The story

  1. German · borrowed fromMandelbrot
  2. English todaymandelbrot

Spelling probably derived from German Mandelbrot. Compare Yiddish מאַנדלבראָט (mandlbrot, “almond bread”), which may have semantically influenced the English term.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.