Etymograph

English

marmite

Marmite comes from French marmite ‘pot, cooking pot, marmite’, and goes back to Old French marmite.

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400marmite
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘pot, cooking pot, marmite’
  3. Englishearliest quotation c. 1910same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400marmite
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘pot, cooking pot, marmite’
  3. Englishearliest quotation c. 1910same form

Earliest quotation: c. 1910, Mrs. Eustace Miles, Meatless Soups: “Required: […] One tablespoonful of nutril or one small…”

Every English word from Old French marmite

Today it means

noun A rounded cooking pot of various designs, commonly pot-bellied, with or without tripod, handles, lid etc; originally earthenware but currently more commonly of cast iron or other metals.

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

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