simnel: [13] Simnel, a term now used for a cake made at Easter, originally denoted ‘bread made from fine flour’. It was borrowed from Old French simenel, which itself came from either Latin simila (source of English semolina) or Greek semídālis, both meaning ‘fine flour’.
simnel (n.)
"sweet cake," c. 1200, from Old French simenel "fine wheat flour; flat bread cake, Lenten cake," probably by dissimilation from Vulgar Latin *siminellus (also source of Old High German semala "the finest wheat flour," German Semmel "a roll"), a diminutive of Latin simila "fine flour" (see semolina).
雙語例句
1. Another kind of mothering cake was the simnel cake, a very rich fruitcake.
還有一種母親節(jié)蛋糕為重油水果蛋糕, 用大量的水果做成的水果蛋糕.
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2. The Lenten fast dictated that the simnel cake had to keep until Easter.