From which language do we get the word "marmalade"?

Shrivats

1480, from French marmelade, from Portuguese marmelada "quince jelly, marmalade," from marmelo "quince," by dissimilation from L. melimelum "sweet apple," originally "fruit of an apple tree grafted onto quince," from Greek melimelon, from meli "honey" + melon "apple." Extended 17c. to "preserve made from citrus fruit." Now if anybody can translate that please? Feb 15 05, 6:30 AM

Flem-ish

Which shows us that melons are apples too, just as pumpkins, because Old-French melon derives from Medieval Latin melonem, which itself derives from Latin melopeponem (a kind of pumpkin) itself deriving from Greek melopepon (gourdapple), which is linguistically speaking, a compound of melon (apple) + pepon (gourd). Cannot help it if it sounds like a Biblical genealogy. Apples begot gourds begot melons and it all mixed up into a honeysweet quince marmalade. Feb 15 05, 7:48 AM