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shakar and
Arabic sukkar. The
Arabic word was
borrowed in
Medieval Latin as
succarum,
whence came the 12th
century French sucre and the
English sugar. Sugar...
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traded and
spread West, this
became سُكَّر (sukkar) in Arabic,
saccharum or
succarum in Latin, zúcchero in Italian, and
eventually sucre in both
Middle French...
- suggest,
support subter-
under Latin subter subterfuge sucr-
sugar Latin succarum sucrose sud-
sweat Latin sudare exudate, exude, sudarium, sudoriferous...
- suggest,
support subter-
under Latin subter subterfuge sucr-
sugar Latin succarum sucrose sud-
sweat Latin sudare exudate, exude, sudarium, sudoriferous...
- there.
Sugar through Old
French sucre,
Italian zucchero,
Medieval Latin succarum, Arabic: سكر
sukkar and Persian: شکر
shakar ultimately from
Sanskrit शर्करा...
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Spellings of the word for
sugar in later-medieval
Latin included sucrum,
succarum, sucharum, sucarium, succurum, zucrum, zucara, zuccarum, zuchar, zucharum...
