bescuit

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

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

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)

• “bescuit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “bescuit”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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

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

1. biscuit (twice cooked bread)

• French: biscuit (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle Dutch: bescuut
  • Dutch: beschuit, beschuyt (obsolete)
    • Afrikaans: beskuit
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: buskiti
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: biskut
    • → Papiamentu: buskuchi (from the diminutive)
    • → Sranan Tongo: buskutu
      • → Aukan: bisikutu
      • → Caribbean Javanese: beskutu
      • → Saramaccan: busikútu
• → Middle English: bisquyte, bysquyte, besquite, byscute, bisquit, byscocte
  • English: biscuit (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: bisquet, bisquite
  • Yola: busk

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bescuit, supplement)