Boudin
/ˈbuː.dɪn/noun
A type of sausage, especially one made from pork, blood, rice, or other regional ingredients.
Did you know?The medical term botulism comes from Latin botulus, meaning “sausage,” after nineteenth-century doctors linked outbreaks of poisoning to contaminated sausages; boudin may be related through French, though the connection is not certain.
Etymological Timeline
Classical Latin
Latin
botulus
“Sausage; a term associated with the later medical naming of sausage poisoning”
Late Latin
Latin
botellus
“A small sausage; diminutive form related to botulus”
Old French
Old French
bodin
“Sausage or blood sausage; the immediate historical source of modern French boudin”
Middle French
Middle French
boudin
“Sausage, especially a blood sausage”
Modern French
French
boudin
“Sausage, commonly blood sausage or white sausage depending on the variety”
Modern English
English
boudin
“A borrowed culinary term for regional sausages, especially Louisiana boudin”