Etymology

mistelle

mis·telle
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Today it means: A drink produced by adding alcohol to grape juice. Full definition →

French mistelle ← Spanish mistela ← Italian mistella
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The story

  1. Italian · derived frommistella
  2. Spanish · borrowed frommistela
  3. French · borrowed frommistelle
  4. English todaymistelle

From French mistelle, Spanish mistela, from Italian mistella, from misto (“mixed”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.