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Added 9 October 2026

cake

/keɪk/ noun

In Latin: placenta, lībum, mustāceus Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about cake at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
an oatmeal cake
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
buckwheat cakes

verb

Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
His shoes are caked with mud.
To form into a cake, or mass.
Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

Origin

From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).

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