Marmelade

See also: marmelade and marmélade

English

Proper noun

Marmelade

1. A commune in northern Haiti.

Translations

Commune in Haiti

• Haitian Creole: Mamlad

German

Etymology

16th century, from Middle French marmelade, from Portuguese marmelada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmarməˈlaːdə/, [ˌmaʁ.məˈlaː.də], [ˌmaɐ̯-], [ˌma(ː)-]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -aːdə
• Hyphenation: Mar‧me‧la‧de

Noun

Marmelade f (genitive Marmelade, plural Marmeladen)

1. jam

   Synonym: (Swiss or officialese) Konfitüre

2. (officialese, marketing) marmalade

Usage notes

• An EU directive introduced in 1979 at the insistence of the British government prescribes that only jams prepared with citrus fruits can be sold as Marmelade. (Since 2003 an exemption exists for local products sold directly to the end user.) Therefore jam is generally sold as Konfitüre, which is the Swiss word for jam. This officialism has little bearing on common usage, however, where Marmelade remains the vastly predominant word.

Declension

Declension of Marmelade [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Marmelade	die	Marmeladen
genitive	einer	der	Marmelade	der	Marmeladen
dative	einer	der	Marmelade	den	Marmeladen
accusative	eine	die	Marmelade	die	Marmeladen

Further reading

• “Marmelade” in Duden online
• “Marmelade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache