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Re:Portugal’s Marmelada Tastes Nothing Like Marmalade (2018) by idoubtit on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:52AM (#20776531)
The etymology of the Portugese "marmelo" is clear, from Latin "melimelum", itself from the Greek "μελίμηλον", meaning "sweet apple". The product was famous, so the word was borrowed to sell orange paste, later orange jam.

I already had a glimpse of the story thanks to a chance reading of the etymology of the French "marmelade", but I enjoyed reading the whole story.

https://www.littre.org/definition/marmelade (~1875) / https://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/marmelade (~1980)

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Re:Portugal’s Marmelada Tastes Nothing Like Marmalade (2018) by Jun8 on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:32PM (#20779266)
For additional information: LS entry for μῆλον http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?... and μελῐμηλον http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?...
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Re:Portugal’s Marmelada Tastes Nothing Like Marmalade (2018) by portuga on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:12AM (#20777151)
> meaning "sweet apple"

Funny thing is it's not sweet at all, more like a very bitter apple.

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