myEtymology.com: Portuguese etymology of caramel

Etymology of the Portuguese word caramel

the Portuguese word caramel

derived from the Latin word calamellus (small, little reed, pen)

derived from the Late Latin word calamus (branch; arm; branch of a candelabrum; reed, cane; reed pen)

derived from the Greek word kalamos, κάλαμος (a reed (the plant or its stem, or that of a similar plant); by implication, a pen)

Spanish caramel