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> From Milanese Lombard panaton, an augmentative of pan (“bread”). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/panettone https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/panettone More on t
by lynguist 3y ago
> From Milanese Lombard panaton, an augmentative of pan (“bread”).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/panettone https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/panettone
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> 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