English
ensaimada
Ensaimada comes from Catalan ensaïmada, from saïm ‘lard’, and ultimately from Latin sagīna.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsagīna
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*sagīmenreconstructed
- Catalanc. 1500–presentsaïm‘lard’
- Catalan, derivedc. 1500–presentensaïmada
- Englishearliest quotation 1984ensaimada
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsagīna
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*sagīmenreconstructed
- Catalanc. 1500–presentsaïm‘lard’
- Catalan, derivedc. 1500–presentensaïmada
- Englishearliest quotation 1984ensaimada
Earliest quotation: 1984, Peggy Speirs, Doing the birdie on a long, long break: “Hotel food is reasonably good, and rather British, except…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ‘to satisfy’
sad, insane, secular, sane, sanity, saturation, sanitary, insatiable, hadron, saturate, sade, satiety, satiate, 18 more
Today it means
noun A type of pastry originating from Mallorca made from flour, water, sugar, eggs, dough and reduced pork lard named saïm.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin sagīna / ensaimada