"biscuit, cookie" in seven languages
Meaningbiscuit, cookie
Spanish
/ɡaˈʝeta/
fem.other source · French galette 'flat cake'
French
/biskɥi/
masc.inherited
Italian
/bisˈkɔtto/
masc.inherited
Portuguese
/bisˈkojtu/
masc.inherited
Also bolacha, especially in Portugal and southern Brazil.
Romanian
/biskuˈit/
masc.borrowed · French biscuit
Catalan
/ɡəˈlɛtə/
fem.other source · French galette 'flat cake'
English
/ˈbɪskɪt/
from Latin/French · French biscuit 'twice-cooked'
American cookie is Dutch koekje 'little cake'.
The Latin ancestor
BIS COCTUM‘twice cooked’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A biscuit was baked twice to keep on long voyages (BIS COCTUM), and its CT went the usual ways: French cuit, Italian cotto, Portuguese coito. Spanish and Catalan prefer French galette 'flat cake'.
English relatives: biscotti, concoct
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In a sentence
- es¿Quieres una galleta con el café?
- frTu veux un biscuit avec ton café ?
- itVuoi un biscotto con il caffè?
- ptQuer um biscoito com o café?
- roVrei un biscuit la cafea?
- caVols una galeta amb el cafè?
- enDo you want a biscuit with your coffee?