English
granadilla
Granadilla comes from Spanish granadilla ‘passion fruit, sweet granadilla, grenadia’, and goes back to Latin (mālum) granātum.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE(mālum) granātumliterally ‘apple with many seeds’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentgranada‘pomegranate (fruit)’
- Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentgranadilla‘passion fruit, sweet granadilla, grenadia’
- Englishearliest quotation 1852same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE(mālum) granātumliterally ‘apple with many seeds’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentgranada‘pomegranate (fruit)’
- Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentgranadilla‘passion fruit, sweet granadilla, grenadia’
- Englishearliest quotation 1852same form
Earliest quotation: 1852, Mrs. David Osborne: “On these plains, too, you will find the bushy…”
Every English word from Latin (mālum) granātum
Today it means
noun Any of the several species of genus Passiflora of passion flowers of tropical America.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin (mālum) granātum / granadilla