pantry
PAN-tree · noun
Origin
Pantry comes from Middle English panetrie, borrowed from Old French paneterie, which traces back to Latin panis, meaning "bread."
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Journey
What began as a word tied specifically to bread widened over time into a general term for a storage room, the kind of place where all sorts of food and provisions are kept, not just loaves.
Related words
Panis, the Latin root, connects this word to a whole family of bread-related terms in French and its descendants.