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English
Proper noun
Marmelade
- A commune in northern Haiti.
Translations
German
Etymology
16th century, from Middle French marmelade, from Portuguese marmelada.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmarməˈlaːdə/, , ,
- Rhymes: -aːdə
- Hyphenation: Mar‧me‧la‧de
Noun
Marmelade f (genitive Marmelade, plural Marmeladen)
- jam
- Synonym: (Swiss or officialese) Konfitüre
- (officialese, marketing) marmalade
Usage notes
- An EU directive introduced in 1979 at the insistence of the British government prescribes that only jams prepared with citrus fruits can be sold as Marmelade. (Since 2003 an exemption exists for local products sold directly to the end user.) Therefore jam is generally sold as Konfitüre, which is the Swiss word for jam. This officialism has little bearing on common usage, however, where Marmelade remains the vastly predominant word.
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References
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2017 July 16, “Marmelade kann endlich wieder Marmelade heißen”, in Welt, retrieved August 31, 2021:
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