The story
- Latin · derived fromcapparis“caper”
- Old Occitan · derived fromtapera
- Occitan · derived fromtapenada
- French · borrowed fromtapenade
- English todaytapenade
Borrowed from French tapenade, from Provençal and Occitan tapenada, tapenado, a diminutive of tapeno (“caper”), variant of tàpero, from Old Occitan tapera, from Latin capparis (“caper”). Influenced by Old Occitan tapia (“rammed earth”), referring to caper bushes growing against buildings made of rammed earth.
Words from the same roots
Latincapparis all →
caper
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.