Etymology

pantry

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Today it means: A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food storage or storing kitchenware, like a larder, but smaller. Full definition →

Middle English panetrie ← Old French paneterie ← Latin panis
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompanis“bread”
  2. Old French · derived frompaneterie
  3. Middle English · inherited frompanetrie
  4. English todaypantry

From Middle English panetrie, from Old French paneterie, related to Latin panis (“bread”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.