Etymology

persipan

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Today it means: A substance similar to marzipan, but produced from peach or apricot pits instead of almonds. Full definition →

German Persipan ← Latin persicus
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The story

  1. German · derived fromMarzipan
  2. Latin · derived frompersicus“peach (tree)”
  3. German · borrowed fromPersipan
  4. English todaypersipan

Borrowed from German Persipan, a blend of Latin persicus (“peach (tree)”) and German Marzipan.

Words from the same roots

Latinpersicus all →

Persic

GermanMarzipan all →

marzipan

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