bescuit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Early Medieval Latin biscoctus (literally “twice baked”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bescuit m (plural bescuits)
- biscuit (twice cooked bread), a biscotte, a rusk
- biscuit (cookie), cookie
- Synonym: galeta
- sponge cake
- Synonym: pa de pessic
- cold porcelain (twice baked porcelain without glazing)
Further reading edit
- “bescuit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “bescuit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Early Medieval Latin biscoctus (literally “twice baked”).
Noun edit
bescuit oblique singular, m (oblique plural bescuiz or bescuitz, nominative singular bescuiz or bescuitz, nominative plural bescuit)
- biscuit (twice cooked bread)
Descendants edit
- French: biscuit (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle English: bisquyte, bysquyte, besquite, byscute, bisquit, byscocte
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bescuit, supplement)