Etymograph

English

ensaymada

Ensaymada comes from Tagalog ensaymada ‘ensaimada’, from Catalan saïm ‘lard’, and ultimately from Latin sagīna.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsagīna
  2. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*sagīmenreconstructed
  3. Catalanc. 1500–presentsaïm‘lard’
  4. Catalan, derivedc. 1500–presentensaïmada
  5. Spanishc. 1500–presentensaimada
  6. Tagalogmodernensaymada‘ensaimada’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2014same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsagīna
  2. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*sagīmenreconstructed
  3. Catalanc. 1500–presentsaïm‘lard’
  4. Catalan, derivedc. 1500–presentensaïmada
  5. Spanishc. 1500–presentensaimada
  6. Tagalogmodernensaymada‘ensaimada’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2014same form

Earliest quotation: 2014, Claude Tayag, Central & Eastern Visayas: “By previous arrangement, we were made to try the…”

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 Synonym of ensaimada.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin sagīna / ensaymada