biscoctus
Latin
Etymology
From (panis) bis (“twice”) + coctus (“cooked”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /bisˈkok.tus/, [bɪs̠ˈkɔkt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /bisˈkok.tus/, [bisˈkɔkt̪us]
Noun
biscoctus m (genitive biscoctī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) bread, loaf
- (Medieval Latin) hardtack
Inflection
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | biscoctus | biscoctī |
| Genitive | biscoctī | biscoctōrum |
| Dative | biscoctō | biscoctīs |
| Accusative | biscoctum | biscoctōs |
| Ablative | biscoctō | biscoctīs |
| Vocative | biscocte | biscoctī |
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: biscotto
- Gallo-Italic:
- Ligurian: beschéutto
- Piedmontese: bëscheuit
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: biscouét
- Old French: bescuit
- French: biscuit (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle English: bisquyte, bysquyte, besquite, byscute, bisquit, byscocte
- English: biscuit (see there for further descendants)
- >? Yola: busk
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: bescuit
- Occitan:
- Gascon: biscuèit
- Languedocien: bescuèch, bescuèit
- Limousin: biscuech, biscueit
- Provençal: bescuech
- Vivaro-Alpine: bescuech, biscuech
- Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: biscueto
- Asturian: bizcuechu
- Galician: biscoito
- Portuguese: biscoito
- Spanish: bizcocho
References
- biscoctus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)