succade

The story

1. Old Italian · derived fromzucchero
2. Old Occitan · derived fromsucrado“sweet, sugary, sugared”
3. Middle French · derived fromsuccade“sweet candied fruit”
4. Middle English · inherited fromsocade
5. English todaysuccade

From Middle English socade, from Middle French succade (“sweet candied fruit”), sucrade, from Old Occitan sucrado (“sweet, sugary, sugared”), from past participle of sucra (“to sugar”), from sucre (“sugar”), from Old Italian zucchero. (See zucchero for additional etymology.)