Where does “larder” come from?

larder (Middle English) comes from Old French lardier, from Latin lardarium, from Latin laridum, from Ancient Greek λαρινός, from Ancient Greek λᾱρός — tasty; pleasent to the taste, sweet, dainty.

larder (Middle English): A stock of meat originally cured pork

Definitions

  1. A stock of meat originally cured pork

Ancestry of “larder”, step by step

larder traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French lardier

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchlardier—
2Latinlardarium—
3Latinlaridumlard, fat from pork or bacon
4Ancient Greekλαρινόςfatted, fat
5Ancient Greekλᾱρόςtasty; pleasent to the taste, sweet, dainty

via Anglo-Norman larder

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normanlarder—

Words derived from “larder”

Every word from Ancient Greek λᾱρός →Every word from Ancient Greek λαρινός →Every word from Latin laridum →