fenoil
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *fēnuclum, syncopated form of Late Latin fēnuculum, from the Classical Latin faeniculum, a diminutive form of faenum (“hay”).
Noun
fenoil m (oblique plural fenouz or fenoilz, nominative singular fenouz or fenoilz, nominative plural fenoil)
- fennel
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):
- A ce appartienent bourrages, fenoil, percin, brouet de cezes, prunes, cerises doulces et matures, spinarches, vectes, safrain et les semblables.
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Related terms
- foin / fein
Descendants
- English: (influenced) or (borrowed in Old English)fennel (the English word comes from Old English. However the [late] Old English word was likelily borrowed from Old French.)
- French: fenouil