bescuit

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəsˈkujt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [besˈkujt]
• Rhymes: -ujt

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

• “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

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 IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bescuit, supplement)