Budino
/buˈdiːnoʊ/noun
An Italian-style pudding or custard, often dense and molded.
Did you know?The word’s suspected sausage connection links it to botulism, whose name comes from Latin botulus, meaning “sausage,” after sausage-associated poisoning outbreaks.
Etymological Timeline
Classical Latin
Latin
botulus
“Sausage, especially a sausage or blood sausage”
Late Latin
Latin
botellus
“A small sausage; a diminutive form related to botulus”
Old French
Old French
bodein
“Sausage or blood sausage”
Middle French
French
boudin
“Sausage, particularly blood sausage”
19th Century
Italian
budino
“Pudding or custard; likely influenced by French boudin and associated with a molded, sausage-like shape”
Modern English
English
budino
“An Italian-style pudding or custard”