Where does the croissant name come from?

Answer 1

The croissant began as the Austrian kipfel, which is documented back as far as the 10th century in Austria (despite a VERY common myth that it was invented during a siege of Vienna by the Turks centuries later). Despite another myth - claiming that Marie-Antoinette then brought it to France - the croissant is not mentioned in France until about the mid-nineteenth century, about ten years after an Austrian officer named August Zang opened a Viennese bakery there and started selling kipfel, which the French bakers, in copying them called "crescents" for their shape - or, in French, "Croissants". These croissants were NOT made of puff pastry - the first "croissants beurre" (puff pastry croissants) are mentioned around the start of the twentieth century.

Answer 2

• The word croissant originated from the Old French language.

Answer 3

French.