vanilla
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wāgīnā
Latin vāgīna
Old Spanish vayna
Spanish vaina
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Latin -ella
Old Spanish -iella
Spanish -illa
Spanish vainillabor.
English vanilla
Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”). "Plain" senses derive from the perceived plainness of vanilla ice cream.
Inflected forms:
form: vanillas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vanille
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: nilla
pos: noun
tags: alternative
clipping
form: more vanilla
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vanilla
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: vanille
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: nilla
pos: adj
tags: alternative
clipping
Senses:
gloss: Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.
gloss: The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Someone who is not into fetishism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
gloss: An unmodded version of a game.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A white person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
ethnic
slur
uncountable
gloss: Of vanilla.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: A mass of folders and binders. One, vanilla in colour, catches her eye.
gloss: Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
retronym
examples: vanilla JavaScript
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gloss: Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
pos: adj
examples: An uncharacteristically vanilla threesome and non-cute realist rendering - derived paradoxically from tracing drawings rather than photographs.
While Dominick was more of a vanilla kind of a guy himself, he wasn't a total dunce when it came to the kinkier sides of things.
Sebastian could never do that, be in a marriage with a vanilla woman.
gloss: Plain; conventional; unimaginative.
pos: adj
examples: The further right or left you go, the more likely you are to eventually come around to hating Jews. On the left, this is plain to see. From the Corbyn-era trend to attack Israel for all the world's sins, to the self-hating asaJews that tweeted enthusiastically about October 7 being a 'day of celebration' to previously vanilla comedian Reginald Hunter retweeting posts about the evils of the Talmud.
Synonyms: vanillar
Related words: flavour extract
vanillin
jellybean
Derived words: banilla
Cuban vanilla
imitation vanilla
nonvanilla
plain vanilla
vanilla bean
vanilla essence
vanilla extract
vanillafy
vanilla grass
vanilla leaf
vanillaness
vanillar
vanilla slice
vanilla submarine
vanilla wafer
vanilla-y
vanillery
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: vanil
lang: Basque
word: banilla
lang: Bulgarian
word: ванилия
roman: vanilija
lang: Catalan
word: vainilla
lang: Cebuano
word: baynilya
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 雲呢拿 /云呢拿
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 香草
roman: hoeng¹ cou²
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 香草
roman: xiāngcǎo
lang: Czech
word: vanilka
lang: Danish
word: vanilje
lang: Esperanto
word: vanilo
lang: Finnish
word: vaniljatanko
lang: French
word: vanille
lang: Galician
word: vainilla
lang: Georgian
word: ვანილი
roman: vanili
lang: German
word: Vanille
lang: Greek
word: βανίλια
roman: vanília
lang: Hungarian
word: vanília
lang: Icelandic
word: vanilla
lang: Icelandic
word: vanilja
lang: Ido
word: vanilo
lang: Indonesian
word: vanili
lang: Italian
word: vaniglia
lang: Japanese
word: バニラ
roman: banira
lang: Kazakh
word: ваниль
roman: vanil
lang: Korean
word: 바닐라
roman: banilla
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: vanîlya
lang: Kyrgyz
word: ваниль
roman: vanil
lang: Macedonian
word: вани́ла
roman: vaníla
lang: Malagasy
word: amalo
lang: Malagasy
word: vanila
lang: Malay
word: vanila
lang: Classical Nahuatl
word: tlīlxōchitl
lang: Norman
word: vanille
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vanilje
lang: Portuguese
word: baunilha
lang: Quechua
word: waynilla
lang: Romanian
word: vanilie
lang: Russian
word: вани́ль
roman: vanílʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ванила
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ванилија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vanila
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vanilija
lang: Slovene
word: vanilja
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: wanilja
lang: Spanish
word: vainilla
lang: Swedish
word: vaniljstång
lang: Tagalog
word: baynilya
lang: Thai
word: ฝักวานิลลา
lang: Tongan
word: vanila
lang: Turkish
word: vanilya
lang: Urdu
word: ایک خوشبو
roman: aik khushbu
lang: Vietnamese
word: vani
lang: Vietnamese
word: vanilla
lang: Yiddish
word: וואַנילע
roman: vanile