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8 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a spread consisting of capers and black olives and anchovies made into a puree with olive oil
originBorrowed from French tapenade, from Provençal and Occitan tapenada, tapenado, a diminutive of tapeno (“caper”), variant of tàpero, from Old Occitan tapera, from Latin capparis (“caper”). Influenced by Old Occitan tapia (“rammed earth”), referring to caper bushes growing against buildings made of rammed earth.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- neaped 9
- panted 9
- pedant 9
- pedate 9
- pentad 9
- nepeta 8
- adapt 8
- adept 8
- panda 8
- paned 8
- pated 8
- taped 8