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Added 9 October 2026

bake

/beɪk/ verb

In Latin: torreō Wiktionary

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To cook using an oven, especially baked goods. To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
I baked a delicious cherry pie.
To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
I baked a delicious cherry pie.
To be cooked in an oven.
The cake baked at 350°F.

noun

The act of cooking food by baking.
Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
bake pan

Origin

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).

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