different between croquette vs fondant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French croquette, from croquer (“to crunch”) + -ette (suffix indicating diminution).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kr?-k?t' IPA^(key): /k?o??k?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

croquette (plural croquettes)

1. (cooking) A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs.

Translations

See also

• croquet

Further reading

• croquette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• coquetter

French

Etymology

From croquer (“to crunch”) +? -ette, 18th c.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.k?t/

Noun

croquette f (plural croquettes)

1. (cooking) croquette (minced, cooked food which is then deep-fried)
2. (by extension) kibble (grain for use as animal feed)
3. (informal, slightly offensive) a beanpole (a skinny and unmuscular person)

Descendants

• ? Catalan: croqueta
• ? Dutch: kroket
• ? English: croquette
• ? German: Krokette
• ? Portuguese: croquete
• ? Spanish: croqueta

Further reading

• “croquette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

19th century. From French fondant (“melting”), from fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fundere (“to melt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?nd?nt/, /f?n?d?nt/, /f???d??/, /f???d??/

Noun

fondant (countable and uncountable, plural fondants)

1. (usually uncountable) A flavored, creamy sugar preparation, used for icing cakes or as a base for candies.
   • 2011, David Jones, Candy Making For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN)

     To produce most types of fondant, you cook sugar, corn syrup, and water and beat the cooled mixture into a creamy paste. You may find a fondant recipe that includes other ingredients, but the three primary ingredients are the ones listed here.

2. (countable) A candy filled with such a preparation.
3. (food) A sugar dough, usually prepared as large sheets (rolled fondant), used in place of icing to cover large areas of cakes, composed of sugar, water, gelatin, glycerine.
   • 2012, Kathryn Williams, Pizza, Love, and Other Stuff That Made Me Famous, Henry Holt and Company (BYR) (?ISBN), page 182:

     Stan made a heroic attempt at a tiered cinnamon cake with a rolled fondant icing that came out gray and tore when he draped it over the cake.

4. (usually uncountable) Fondue.
5. (usually uncountable) The base or flux, in enamel, which is colored throughout by metallic oxide while in a state of fusion.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• fondue

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

fondant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Stooping, as for prey: said of an eagle, a falcon, etc.

Further reading

• fondant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Fondant on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Fondant au chocolat on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowing from French fondant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?n?d?nt/
• Hyphenation: fon?dant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

fondant m or n (plural fondants, diminutive fondantje n)

1. (Netherlands) fondant (sugary substance)
2. (Belgium) dark chocolate

Derived terms

• fondantsuiker

Finnish

Etymology

< French fondant

Noun

fondant

1. Alternative term for fondantti.

Usage notes

• Finnish and English "fondant" do not mean same things.

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.d??/

Verb

fondant

1. present participle of fonder
2. present participle of fondre

Adjective

fondant (feminine singular fondante, masculine plural fondants, feminine plural fondantes)

1. melting
2. melt in the mouth

Noun

fondant m (plural fondants)

1. fondant (all senses)

Romanian

Etymology

From French fondant.

Adjective

fondant m or n (feminine singular fondant?, masculine plural fondan?i, feminine and neuter plural fondante)

1. melting

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fon?dant/, [fõn??d?ãn?t?]

Noun

fondant m (plural fondants)

1. fondant (confectionery)