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Paella

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a traditional Spanish dish of saffron-flavored rice with meat, seafood, or vegetables
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Stage 1 of 3
patella
Latin · ancient
"a small pan"
a small pan, a dish, a diminutive of patina (a shallow bowl)
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Stage 2 of 3
paella
Valencian/Spanish · medieval
"a shallow pan, and the rice dish cooked in it"
settled as the name for the shallow pan, and the rice dish cooked in it
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Stage 3 of 3
paella
English · 1900s
"a traditional Spanish rice dish"
adopted directly for the traditional Spanish rice dish
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