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means A small, individually baked piece of bread sized for one person, typically eaten with a meal or used for a sandwich.

from Both halves are plain Old English stock. 'Bread' traces back to a Germanic root meaning a piece or fragment of baked dough. 'Roll' comes via Old French 'rolle' from Latin 'rotulus' (a little wheel or scroll), describing the shape the dough takes when it's rolled up or rounded into its own little mound before baking — so the name literally describes the motion that gives it its one-person shape.