"bakery" in seven languages

Meaningbakery

Spanish

panadería

/panadeˈɾia/

fem.inherited

French

boulangerie

/bulɑ̃ʒʁi/

fem.other source · from boulanger 'baker', Picard boulenc, probably from Middle Dutch bolle 'round loaf'

Italian

panetteria

/panetteˈria/

fem.inherited

Also panificio, or simply il forno.

Portuguese

padaria

/padaˈɾiɐ/

fem.inherited

From padeiro 'baker', where Portuguese lost the intervocalic n of PĀN-.

Romanian

brutărie

/brutəˈrie/

fem.other source · from brutar 'baker', of uncertain origin

Catalan

forn

/forn/

masc.other source · Latin FURNUM 'oven'

Literally 'the oven'; fleca is also used.

English

bakery

/ˈbeɪkəɹi/

native English · Old English bacan 'to bake'

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The Latin ancestor

PĀNEM‘bread’

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

Spanish and Italian name the shop after bread itself; French after the baker of round loaves, a word from the Germanic north.