What is the derivation of the word vanilla?

Anonymous

∙ 16y ago

Updated: 8/16/2019

Vanilla comes from the Spanish word for "little pod" (vainilla) which in itself is a diminutive of the Spanish term vaina ("sheath") and derives originally back to the latin vagina.

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