Dictionary

frangipani en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌfrændʒɪˈpæni/
• /ˌfrændʒɪˈpɑːni/

Etymology

From French frangipane, from Italian frangipane. Possibly named after Muzio Frangipane, a 16th-century marquess of the Italian noble Frangipani family, who invented a plumeria-scented perfume. The name Frangipane derives from frangere (“to break”) + pane (“bread”), a reference to the family's distribution of bread in time of famine.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria, having fragrant, showy, funnel-shaped flowers of a wide range of colours from creamy to red.
2. (countable, uncountable) A flower of these plants.
   • I casually let this information drop as our concierge drives us through the resort in a buggy, a frangipani flower tucked behind his ear. He promises to fix the bug problem and drops us off at the lobby. 2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times:
   • The aroma given off by flowers has an aphrodisiac effect, especially on women. This is so particularly in the case of lilies of the valley, gardenia, frangipani, and henna. 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 98:
3. (countable, uncountable) A perfume obtained from this plant or imitating the odour of its flowers.
4. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of frangipane (“cream made from ground almonds; pastry filled with this cream”).
   alt of frangipane
   • Lahlou baked a cardamom frangipani and cut it into pieces as a base for roasted chicken. (Well, I used chicken; he used squab. Use whatever bird you fancy.) Then he topped the frangipani and poultry with kale and leaf-thin sugar-and-cardamom-sprinkled phyllo rectangles — made by baking them between baking sheets — like a savory mille-feuille. 2010 November 24, Amanda Hesser, “Recipe Redux: Fyrstekake (Royal Cake), 1963”, in The New York Times Magazine:

Forms

Deriveds

native frangipani

Relateds

frangipane

Synonyms

plumeria

Translations (20)

km ចំប៉ី (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · tl kalatsutsi (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · th ลีลาวดี (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · es cacalosúchil (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · tr Hint yasemini (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · lo ຈຳປາ (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · hu frangipáni (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · ms kemboja (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · lo ຈຳປີ (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · id kemboja (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · de Frangipani (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · it frangipane (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · haw melia (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · th ลั่นทม (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · my တရုတ်စံကား (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · lo ລັ່ນທົມ (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · cmn 雞蛋花 /鸡蛋花 (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · ceb kalatsutsi (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · cs plumérie (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria) · fr frangipanier (any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria)

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