biscuit的词源
英文词源
- biscuit
- biscuit: [14] Biscuit means literally ‘twicecooked’ – from the method of cooking, in which the biscuits are returned to the oven after the initial period of baking in order to become dry or crisp. The original source of the word was probably a medieval Latin *biscoctus, from bis ‘twice’ and coctus ‘cooked’, the past participle of coquere (which is related to English cook). It reached English via Old French biscut.
=> cook - biscuit (n.)
- respelled early 19c. from bisket (16c.), ultimately (besquite, early 14c.) from Old French bescuit (12c.), literally "twice cooked;" altered under influence of cognate Old Italian biscotto, both from Medieval Latin biscoctum, from Latin (panis) bis coctus "(bread) twice-baked;" see bis- + cook (v.). U.S. sense of "soft bun" is recorded from 1818.
中文词源
古代西方人在航海时，为了解决漫长的海上旅行的饮食问题，发明了一种制作干粮的方法，那就是将烘烤好的面包，回炉再烘烤一次，使其变干变脆。这样处理过的干面包就可以保存很长时间而不会变质腐烂，特别适合长时间的海上旅程。这种烘烤两次的干面包就是饼干biscuit的前身。英语单词biscuit源自法语bescuit，由bes（twice，两次）+cuit（cooked，烘烤过的），字面意思就是“烘烤过两次的面包”。
biscuit：['bɪskɪt]n.饼干，小点心。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：biscuit 词源，biscuit 含义。
bis, 二。cuit, 词源同cook. 原指两面煎烤的面包。
bis-拉丁前缀，表twice，cuit同cook有关，biscuit来自拉丁(panis) bis coctus即(bread) twice-baked。同样的逻辑出现在德语词源的zwieback上。zwieback（烤干面包），德语词首音z-同英语t，如time对应zeit，而twice就对应zwie-，back部分同bake。
