Masculine

gâteau

Meaning

  1. (masculine) a sponge cake, i.e. a cake made with a chemical leavening agent (e.g. baking powder), making it light and airy (as opposed to a denser torte)
  2. (Louisiana, masculine) a cookie

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡa.to/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Middle French gasteau, from Old French gastel, from Frankish *wastil, from Proto-Germanic *wastilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to eat; consume”). Compare Old English wist (“food; provision; feast”) and obsolete English wastel, Sicilian guasteḍḍa (“a kind of round bread”).

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