myEtymology.com: Spanish etymology of caramelo

Etymology of the Spanish word caramelo

the Spanish word caramelo

derived from the Portuguese word caramelo

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)

French caramel