Etymology

orangeade

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Today it means: A soft drink or a soda with an orange flavor. Full definition →

English orange ← Middle English orenge ← Middle French orange
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The story

  1. Italianmelarancia
  2. Old FrenchOrengeinflu.
  3. Old Occitanauranjainflu.
  4. Old Frenchpomme d'orenge
  5. Old Frenchorenge
  6. Middle Frenchorange
  7. Middle Englishorenge
  8. Englishorange
  9. English todayorangeade

From orange + -ade.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.