caramel

noun

1. a liquid made by cooking sugar until it changes color, used for coloring and flavoring food.
2. a kind of chewy candy, commonly in small blocks, made from sugar, butter, milk, etc.
3. a yellowish brown or tan color.

noun

1. burnt sugar, used for colouring and flavouring food
2. a chewy sweet made from sugar, butter, milk, etc

n.

1725, from French caramel “burnt sugar” (17c.), via Old Spanish caramel (modern caramelo), ultimately from Medieval Latin cannamellis, traditionally from Latin canna (see cane (n.)) + mellis, genitive of mel “honey” (see Melissa). But some give the Medieval Latin word an Arabic origin, or trace it to Latin calamus “reed, cane.”