"baker" in seven languages

Meaningbaker

Spanish

panadero

/panaˈdeɾo/

masc.other source · Spanish pan 'bread' (PĀNEM) + -ero

fem.: panadera

French

boulanger

/bulɑ̃ʒe/

masc.other source · Picard boulenc, of disputed (probably Germanic) origin

fem.: boulangère

Italian

fornaio

/forˈnajo/

masc.inherited

Also panettiere, the baker who sells bread.

Portuguese

padeiro

/paˈdejɾu/

masc.other source · Portuguese pão 'bread' (Latin PĀNEM) + -eiro

Romanian

brutar

/bruˈtar/

masc.other source · probably German Brot 'bread' + -ar

Catalan

forner

/furˈne/

masc.inherited

Like Italian fornaio, the baker is 'the oven man' (forn ← FURNUM).

English

baker

/ˈbeɪkɚ/

native English · Old English bæcere

English → ItalianbakerfornaioNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: furnace.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

FURNĀRIUM‘baker (from FURNUS 'oven')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

Italian names the baker after the oven, Spanish after the bread. Spanish has the oven word too: hornero, with the regular F- → h-.

English relatives: furnace