calamellus

Latin

From calamus (“reed”) +‎ -ellus.

calamellus m (genitive calamellī); second declension

Second-declension noun.

Catalan: caramell, caramella
Galician: carambelo (“icicle”), caramelo
Italian: caramello, caramella
Old French: chalemel
- French: chalumeau (“blowtorch”)
  - → English: chalumeau
  - → North Levantine Arabic: شلمونة (šalimōne)
  - → Turkish: şalümo
- → English: shawm
Old Galician-Portuguese: caramelo
- Portuguese: caramelo
  - → Spanish: caramelo (“caramel, candy”)
    - → Catalan: caramel
    - → French: caramel (see there for further descendants)
Romanian: caramel
Sicilian: carameḍḍu, carameḍḍa
Spanish: caramillo (“shawm”)

“calamellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
calamellus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
calamellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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