Famine
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late Middle English: from Old French, from faim ‘hunger’, from Latin fames .
wiktionary
Borrowed from Middle French famine, itself from the root of Latin fames. Cognate with Spanish hambruna(“famine”).
etymonline
famine (n.)
mid-14c., from Old French famine "famine, starvation" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *famina, from Latin fames "hunger, starvation, famine," which is of unknown origin.