bagasse
English
Noun
bagasse (countable and uncountable, plural bagasses)
- The residue from processing sugar cane after the juice is extracted.
Derived terms
Translations
French
Noun
bagasse f (plural bagasses)
- bagasse (residue from processing sugar cane after extracting the juice)
- residue of indigo after extracting the dye by fermentation
Etymology 2
Attested since the 1580s, from Old Occitan bagassa (“whore”), from Gallo-Roman *bacassa ("servant").[1][2][3]
(Some scholars previously postulatd that it derived from Arabic باغية (bàghya, “prostitute”), from بغاء (bàghà),[4][5][6][7] but this was doubted by Émile Littré and is now considered unlikely.)
References
- “bagasse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
- von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “bagasse”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German)
- F. Vernet, Que dalle ! Quand l'argot parle occitan (Bouloc: IEO Edicions, 2007)
- Pierre Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, book II (Paris, 1865), page 45
- Antoine-Paulin Pihan, Dictionnaire étymologique des mots de la langue française dérivés de l'arabe (Paris, 1866), page 54
- Stephen Weston, A Specimen of the Conformity of the European Languages (London, 1803), page 25
- S. J. Honorat, Dictionnaire Provençal-Français, ou Dictionnaire de la Langue d’Oc, book I (Digne, 1846), page 211
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