"cecil" meaning in All languages combined

See cecil on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: cecils [plural]
Etymology: From Cecil, the surname of the chef who invented them. Etymology templates: {{m|en|Cecil}} Cecil Head templates: {{en-noun}} cecil (plural cecils)
  1. (cooking) A fried ball of minced meat, breadcrumbs, onions, etc. Categories (topical): Cooking

Noun [Old English]

Etymology: Diminutive of an unattested *coc-. Possibly cognate with Dutch koek and German kuchen, the latter's oldest form having a long root vowel like cecil and *coc-. If so, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô. Etymology templates: {{l|ang|*coc-}} *coc-, {{cog|nl|koek}} Dutch koek, {{cog|de|kuchen}} German kuchen, {{l|ang|cecil}} cecil, {{l|ang|*coc-}} *coc-, {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*kōkô}} Proto-Germanic *kōkô Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|||||g=?|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} cecil ?, {{ang-noun}} cecil ?
  1. Cake.
    Sense id: en-cecil-ang-noun-VL2yXqvJ Categories (other): German links with redundant wikilinks, Old English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for cecil meaning in All languages combined (2.8kB)

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