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| = French detailed list (< Latin minutus = small) |
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| = French kitchen; cookery |
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| < Old French boef (< Latin bos, bovis = cow). Cf. Modern French boeuf |
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| < Middle French poulet (Latin pullus = young of any animal). Cf. Spanish and Italian pollo |
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| < Latin verb appeto = seek, desire |
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| < Latin palatum = roof of the mouth |
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| < Latin salmon, salmonis = salmon |
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| < Old French ris (< Italian riso < Greek oryzon) |
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| < Old French ris (< Italian riso < Greek oryzon) |
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| < French carotte (< Latin carota < Greek karoton) |
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< Old English bread. Cf. German brot
BUT Latin panis > French pain, Italian pane, Spanish pan |
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| < Latin vinum (cf. French vin, and Italian and Spanish vino) |
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| < Gaelic usqebaugh (“the water of life”) |
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| < Latin pasta (dough) (< Greek pastos = sprinkled). Originally, pasta was a kind of porridge sprinkled with salt. |
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| < Italian spago (cord, rope) |
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| < Latin restauro (restore) |
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| < Italian pizza < derivation unclear but perhaps from Latin placenta (cake) |
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| < French salade < Latin salata (salted) |
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| < Narragansett Native American askutasquash (“thing eaten green”) |
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| < Spanish tomate (< Aztec tomatl) |
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| < Spanish patata (Taino < batata) |
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| < Old Spanish espinaca (< Arabic isfanakh) |
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| < Latin pisum (cf. Italian pisello, Fench pois) |
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| < Old English raedic (Latin < radix = root) |
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| < French desservir (to clear the table) |
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| < the original form of the word in English was apricock, from the Portuguese albricoque, which, in turn, came from the Arabic al-birquq. The Arabic word, however, was a transliteration of a Latin adjective, Praecoquum (early ripening), a term that could be applied to any fruit. |
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| < Old English aeppel Cf. German apfel |
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| < Middle English pie (shallow pit) < Old French puis < Latin puleus (well) |
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| < Middle English kake. Cf. Icelandic kaka, German kuchen, Dutch coek. Cookie is a diminutive form of coek. |
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| < German bretzel (< Latin bracellus = bracelet) |
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| < Turkish kahve (< Arabic qahwah). Cf. French café (coffee shop), and cafeteria. |
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| < Chinese t’e (Amoy dialect); the more common Chinese word is the Mandarin ch’a. |
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