English
empadão
Empadão comes from Portuguese empada ‘a type of meat or fish pie with a very crumbly…’, from Spanish empanar ‘to bread’, and ultimately from Latin pānis.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpānis‘bread, loaf’
- Old Spanishc. 950–1500pan
- Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form‘bread’
- Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentempanar‘to bread’
- Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentempanada
- Portuguesec. 1500–presentempada‘a type of meat or fish pie with a very crumbly crust’
- Portuguese, derivedc. 1500–presentempadão
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpānis‘bread, loaf’
- Old Spanishc. 950–1500pan
- Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form‘bread’
- Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentempanar‘to bread’
- Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentempanada
- Portuguesec. 1500–presentempada‘a type of meat or fish pie with a very crumbly crust’
- Portuguese, derivedc. 1500–presentempadão
- Englishtodaysame form
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’
food, father, feed, pope, pattern, foster, apparent, fur, pastor, penetration, papa, patriot, patron, accompany, fodder, perpetrator, pasture, forage, paternal, paternity, ayr, fad, padre, perpetrate, patrician, panini, patrimony, père, pater, pav, pantaloons, compere, 58 more
through Latin pānis ‘bread, loaf’
company, pain, panic, companion, accompaniment, bannock, pannier, 11 more
Today it means
noun A traditional Portuguese dish, made in an oven, consisting of a layer of meat or seafood between layers of starchy ingredients.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pānis / empadão