In the Romance languages of Europe, the names for bread share their etymology with the Latin panis, becoming pain in French, and pan in Spanish and Portguese. From the Portuguese comes the Japanese name pan.
★法國人稱麵包為 Pain，西班牙、葡萄牙稱為 Pan，傳到日本被音譯為日語的「纣？」（音胖），台灣受日本殖民統治影響，台語的麵包（胖）就是直接沿用日語而來。