orgeat

English

Etymology

From French orge (“barley”), from Latin hordeum.

Noun

orgeat (plural orgeats)

1. A sweet syrup made from sugar and almonds (or originally barley) and rose water or orange flower water.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “orgeat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Argote, OR gate, Tagore, ergato-, garote, gear to, toe rag, toerag

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French

Etymology

From orge +‎ -at, orge from Latin hordeum (“barley”). Orgeat was originally a barley derivative. Cf. Spanish horchata

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.ʒa/

Noun

orgeat m (plural orgeats)

1. orgeat
2. a drink made of orgeat syrup, diluted with water

Synonyms

• (syrup): sirop d’orgeat

References

• “orgeat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.