biscotto
See also: biscottò
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian biscotto. Doublet of biscuit.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɪˈskɒtəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /bɪˈskɑtoʊ/
- Rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
Noun
biscotto (plural biscotti)
- Alternative form of biscotti.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian biscotto (“cookie, biscuit”) (in a figurative sense). Doublet of biscuit and biscotte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bis.kɔ.to/
- Rhymes: -o
Noun
biscotto m (uncountable)
- (sports) tactical play between two people (or two teams) aimed to wrong or evict a third person (or a third team)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bisˈkɔt.to/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɔtto
- Hyphenation: bi‧scòt‧to
Etymology 1
Inherited from Early Medieval Latin biscoctus. Synchronicallty bis- (“twice”) + cotto (“baked, cooked”). Doublet of biscuit.
Noun
biscotto m (plural biscotti)
- biscuit, cookie
- (sports slang, uncountable) match fixing, tactical play between two teams aimed to wrong or evict a third team
- Synonym: combine
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Albanian: biskotë
- → Arabic:
- → Byzantine Greek: μπισκόττιν (mpiskóttin)
- Greek: μπισκότο (biskóto)
- → English: biscotti, biscotto
- → Esperanto: biskoto
- → Ido: biskoto
- → French: biscotte
- → French: biscotto
- → Friulian: biscòtt
- → German: Biskotte, Zwieback (calque) (see there for further descendants)
- → Ladin: biscoto, biscot
- → Romansh: biscot, biscott
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
biscotto
- first-person singular present indicative of biscottare
References
- biscotto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Further reading
- biscotto on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it