cakeの意味・使い方・発音

cake

英 [keɪk] 美 [kek]

ケーキケーキ。

もともとは丸い塊状の物体や塊状のパンを意味し、現在理解されているケーキではない。cookとの同族語源は否定されている。

cake: cake: [13] Originally, cake was a term for a flat round loaf of bread (it is this ‘shape’ element in its meaning that lies behind more modern usages such as ‘cake of soap’). It is not until the 15th century that we find it being applied to foodstuffs we would now recognize as cakes, made with butter, eggs, and some sort of sweetening agent. English borrowed the word from Old Norse kaka; it is related to cookie (from Dutch koekje), but not, despite the similarity, to cook. The expression piece of cake ‘something easy’ seems to have originated in the 1930s.
=> cookie
cake (n.): early 13c., from Old Norse kaka "cake," from West Germanic *kokon- (cognates: Middle Dutch koke, Dutch koek, Old High German huohho, German Kuchen). Not now believed to be related to Latin coquere "to cook," as formerly supposed. Replaced its Old English cognate, coecel.
What man, I trow ye raue, Wolde ye bothe eate your cake and haue your cake? ["The Proverbs & Epigrams of John Heywood," 1562]
Originally (until early 15c.) "a flat, round loaf of bread." Piece of cake "something easy" is from 1936. The let them eat cake story is found in Rousseau's "Confessions," in reference to an incident c. 1740, long before Marie Antoinette, though it has been associated with her since c. 1870; it apparently was a chestnut in the French royal family that had been told of other princesses and queens before her.
cake (v.): c. 1600, from cake (n.). Related: Caked; caking.

1. Serve the cake warm or at room temperature，cut in squares.: などのケーキは温めたり、室温に冷めたりしたときに四角に切ってテーブルに持っていく。

2.I would like my wedding cake decorated with cupids.: 私のウェディングケーキにキューピットの形を飾りたい。

3.Mr.Long was now cutting himself a piece of the pink cake .: 朗さんは自分のためにピンクのケーキを切っています。

4.Pour the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 45 minutes.: 混合物を焼き型に入れて45分間焼く。

5.Turn the cake the right way up on to a wire rack.: ケーキを適切な方向にひっくり返してワイヤフレームに合わせます。