Noun: vanilla
| Singular | vanilla |
| Plural | vanillas |
Sample Sentences
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Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 242:]
Nouns inflected like vanilla
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Italic *wāgīnā
3. Latin vāgīna
4. Old Spanish vayna
5. Spanish vaina
6. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
7. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
8. Proto-Italic *-elos
9. Latin -lus
10. Latin -ellus
11. Latin -ella
12. Old Spanish -iella
13. Spanish -illa
14. Spanish vainillabor.
15. English vanilla
16. Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”). "Plain" senses derive from the perceived plainness of vanilla ice cream. See: Spanish Nouns '
vainilla'.
Verbs referencing "vanilla"
Icelandic Nouns
vanilla, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
vanilje.