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noun, masculine

ramequin

/ʁam.kɛ̃/

noun, masculine/ʁam.kɛ̃/plural: ramequins

ramequin is masculine in French.

ramekin (dish for baking in oven)

From Middle Dutch rammeken (“toasted bread”) or Middle Low German ramken (“cream”), from rame, rōme (“cream”), from Old Saxon *rōm (“cream”), from Proto-West Germanic *raum, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz (“cream”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewǝgh- (“to sour”). Cognate with Old High German roum (“cream”), Old English rēam (“cream”). More at ream.