bescuit

== Catalan == === Etymology === Inherited from Early Medieval Latin biscoctus (literally “twice baked”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəsˈkujt] IPA(key): (Valencia) [besˈkujt] Rhymes: -ujt === Noun === bescuit m (plural bescuits) biscuit (twice cooked bread), a biscotte, a rusk biscuit (cookie), cookie Synonym: galeta sponge cake Synonym: pa de pessic 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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 == 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) biscuit (twice cooked bread) ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: biscuit, bescuit, bescuire, besquitFrench: biscuit (see there for further descendants) → Middle Dutch: bescuut Dutch: beschuit, beschuyt (obsolete)Afrikaans: beskuitBerbice 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, byscocteEnglish: biscuit (see there for further descendants)Scots: bisquet, bisquiteYola: busk === References === Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bescuit, supplement)