"cake" meaning in Middle English

See cake in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈkaːk(ə)/ Forms: cakes [plural], kake [alternative], caake [alternative], cayk [alternative]
Etymology: From Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ. Etymology templates: {{etymon|enm|bor|non>kaka>dessert|id=dessert}}, {{bor|enm|non|kaka}} Old Norse kaka, {{der|enm|gem-pro|*kakǭ}} Proto-Germanic *kakǭ Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} cake, {{enm-noun|cakes}} cake (plural cakes)
  1. A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):
    (medicine) A cake prepared to cure disease or illness.
    Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-cake-enm-noun-7wwuP8vC Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 45 40 15 Topics: medicine, sciences
  2. A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):
    (Christianity, rare) A communion wafer.
    Tags: rare Categories (topical): Christianity, Cakes and pastries
    Sense id: en-cake-enm-noun-14v9Wa31 Disambiguation of Cakes and pastries: 23 65 12 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 45 40 15 Topics: Christianity
  3. (rare) A lump, boil, or ball. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-cake-enm-noun-u2W3k0A6 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 45 40 15
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pancake

Alternative forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "pancake"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "cake"
          },
          "expansion": "English: cake",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: cake (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en-geo",
            "2": "kyek"
          },
          "expansion": "Geordie English: kyek",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Geordie English: kyek"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "cake",
            "3": "cyaak",
            "4": "kyaak"
          },
          "expansion": "Scots: cake, cyaak, kyaak",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: cake, cyaak, kyaak"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yol",
            "2": "caake",
            "alts": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Yola: caake, kaake",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Yola: caake, kaake"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "cáca",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Irish: cáca",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Irish: cáca"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cy",
            "2": "cacen",
            "bor": "1",
            "der": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→⇒ Welsh: cacen",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→⇒ Welsh: cacen"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "bor",
        "3": "non>kaka>dessert",
        "id": "dessert"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
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        "1": "enm",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "kaka"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse kaka",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*kakǭ"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cakes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kake",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caake",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cayk",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "nouns",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cake",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cakes"
      },
      "expansion": "cake (plural cakes)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Medicine",
          "orig": "enm:Medicine",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Healthcare",
            "Sciences",
            "Health",
            "All topics",
            "Body",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 40 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):",
        "A cake prepared to cure disease or illness."
      ],
      "id": "en-cake-enm-noun-7wwuP8vC",
      "links": [
        [
          "cake",
          "cake#English"
        ],
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "disease",
          "disease"
        ],
        [
          "illness",
          "illness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):",
        "(medicine) A cake prepared to cure disease or illness."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Christianity",
          "orig": "enm:Christianity",
          "parents": [
            "Abrahamism",
            "Religion",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 40 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 65 12",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Cakes and pastries",
          "orig": "enm:Cakes and pastries",
          "parents": [
            "Desserts",
            "Foods",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):",
        "A communion wafer."
      ],
      "id": "en-cake-enm-noun-14v9Wa31",
      "links": [
        [
          "cake",
          "cake#English"
        ],
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "communion wafer",
          "communion wafer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):",
        "(Christianity, rare) A communion wafer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "45 40 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lump, boil, or ball."
      ],
      "id": "en-cake-enm-noun-u2W3k0A6",
      "links": [
        [
          "lump",
          "lump"
        ],
        [
          "boil",
          "boil"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A lump, boil, or ball."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkaːk(ə)/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cake"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms borrowed from Old Norse",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old Norse",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Pages with 9 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "enm:Cakes and pastries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "pancake"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "cake"
          },
          "expansion": "English: cake",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: cake (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en-geo",
            "2": "kyek"
          },
          "expansion": "Geordie English: kyek",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Geordie English: kyek"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "cake",
            "3": "cyaak",
            "4": "kyaak"
          },
          "expansion": "Scots: cake, cyaak, kyaak",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: cake, cyaak, kyaak"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yol",
            "2": "caake",
            "alts": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Yola: caake, kaake",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Yola: caake, kaake"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "cáca",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Irish: cáca",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Irish: cáca"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cy",
            "2": "cacen",
            "bor": "1",
            "der": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→⇒ Welsh: cacen",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→⇒ Welsh: cacen"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "bor",
        "3": "non>kaka>dessert",
        "id": "dessert"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
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        "3": "kaka"
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      "expansion": "Old Norse kaka",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
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      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cakes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kake",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caake",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cayk",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "nouns",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cake",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cakes"
      },
      "expansion": "cake (plural cakes)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "enm:Medicine"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):",
        "A cake prepared to cure disease or illness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cake",
          "cake#English"
        ],
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "disease",
          "disease"
        ],
        [
          "illness",
          "illness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):",
        "(medicine) A cake prepared to cure disease or illness."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses",
        "enm:Christianity"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):",
        "A communion wafer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cake",
          "cake#English"
        ],
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "communion wafer",
          "communion wafer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):",
        "(Christianity, rare) A communion wafer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lump, boil, or ball."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lump",
          "lump"
        ],
        [
          "boil",
          "boil"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A lump, boil, or ball."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkaːk(ə)/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cake"
}

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