bescuit

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Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin biscoctus (literally twice baked).

Pronunciation

Noun

bescuit m (plural bescuits)

  1. biscuit (twice cooked bread), a biscotte, a rusk
  2. biscuit (cookie), cookie
    Synonym: galeta
  3. sponge cake
    Synonym: pa de pessic
  4. cold porcelain (twice baked porcelain without glazing)

Further reading

Old French

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin biscoctus (literally twice baked).

Noun

bescuit oblique singular, m (oblique plural bescuiz or bescuitz, nominative singular bescuiz or bescuitz, nominative plural bescuit)

  1. biscuit (twice cooked bread)

Descendants

  • French: biscuit (see there for further descendants)
  • Middle English: bisquyte, bysquyte, besquite, byscute, bisquit, byscocte
    • English: biscuit (see there for further descendants)
    • >? Yola: busk

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bescuit, supplement)
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