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Origin and history of anise

anise(n.)

Levantine plant cultivated for its seeds, which were important sources of chemical oils and flavoring, c. 1300, from Old French anis (13c.), from Latin anisum, from Greek annēson, which Beekes suggests is from a substrate language. By the Ancients somewhat confused with dill. Related: Anisic.

also from c. 1300

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aniseed(n.)

late 14c., a contraction of anise seed (n.).

anisette(n.)

"liqueur flavored with aniseed," 1821, from French Anisette de Bordeaux, from diminutive of anis (see anise).

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