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Panettone, "Tony's bread." Or at least that's what my Italian acct. prof. insisted. Interestingly the Italian wiki entry is a lot longer than the English one

• lynguist 3y ago
  > From Milanese Lombard panaton, an augmentative of pan (“bread”). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/panettone https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/panettone More on the subject: > Italian has several augmentatives: -one, -ona, found also in several English loanwords from Italian, often via French: minestrone (< minestra 'soup'); provolone cheese (< provola 'a kind of cheese'); cartone (< carta 'paper') appears in English carton and cartoon; balloon (this may have been formed in Italian, though the usual form is pallone, or in French)); milione 'million' (< mille 'thousand'); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmentative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmentative