Etymograph

English

biscotin

Biscotin comes from French biscotin ‘a small biscuit, somewhat like shortbread’, from Italian biscottino ‘diminutive of biscotto’, and ultimately from Early Medieval Latin biscoctus.

  1. Early Medieval Latinmodernbiscoctus
  2. Italianc. 1300–presentbiscotto‘biscuit, cookie’
  3. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentbiscottino‘diminutive of biscotto’
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentbiscotin‘a small biscuit, somewhat like shortbread’
  5. Englishtodaybiscotin

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Early Medieval Latinmodernbiscoctus
  2. Italianc. 1300–presentbiscotto‘biscuit, cookie’
  3. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentbiscottino‘diminutive of biscotto’
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentbiscotin‘a small biscuit, somewhat like shortbread’
  5. Englishtodaybiscotin

Linked words

through Early Medieval Latin biscoctus

biscuit, 2 more

Today it means

noun A sweet kind of biscuit.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Early Medieval Latin biscoctus / biscotin

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