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Details Title: Word Power Chapter 1 Description: vocab from chapter 1 Total Flash Cards: 44 Created: 06/27/2007 10:24:14	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Menu Definition = French detailed list (< Latin minutus = small) Term Cuisine Cuisine Definition = French kitchen; cookery Term Meat Definition < Old English mete Term Beef Definition < Old French boef (< Latin bos, bovis = cow). Cf. Modern French boeuf Term Chicken Definition < Germanic chiken Term Poultry Definition < Middle French poulet (Latin pullus = young of any animal). Cf. Spanish and Italian pollo Term Appetite Definition < Latin verb appeto = seek, desire Term Palate Definition < Latin palatum = roof of the mouth Term Salmon Definition < Latin salmon, salmonis = salmon Term Rice Definition < Old French ris (< Italian riso < Greek oryzon) Term Rice Definition < Old French ris (< Italian riso < Greek oryzon) Term Carrot Definition < French carotte (< Latin carota < Greek karoton) Term Bread Definition < Old English bread. Cf. German brot BUT Latin panis > French pain, Italian pane, Spanish pan Term Wine Definition < Latin vinum (cf. French vin, and Italian and Spanish vino) Term Whiskey Definition < Gaelic usqebaugh (“the water of life”) Term Vodka Definition < Russian voda (water) Term Pasta Definition < Latin pasta (dough) (< Greek pastos = sprinkled). Originally, pasta was a kind of porridge sprinkled with salt. Term Linguini Definition < Latin lingua (tongue) Term Spaghetti Definition < Italian spago (cord, rope) Term Cheese Definition < Latin caseus Term Curry Definition < Tamil kari (sauce) Term Restaurant Definition < Latin restauro (restore) Term Pizza Definition < Italian pizza < derivation unclear but perhaps from Latin placenta (cake) Term Salad Definition < French salade < Latin salata (salted) Term Vegetable Definition < Latin vegeo (grow) Term Squash Definition < Narragansett Native American askutasquash (“thing eaten green”) Term Tomato Definition < Spanish tomate (< Aztec tomatl) Term Potato Definition < Spanish patata (Taino < batata) Term Avocado Definition < Spanish aguacate ( Term Spinach Definition < Old Spanish espinaca (< Arabic isfanakh) Term Onion Definition < Latin unio (pearl) Term Lettuce Definition < Latin lactuca Term Pea Definition < Latin pisum (cf. Italian pisello, Fench pois) Term Radish Definition < Old English raedic (Latin < radix = root) Term Dessert Definition < French desservir (to clear the table) Term Fruit Definition < Latin fruor = enjoy Term Apricot Definition < the original form of the word in English was apricock, from the Portuguese albricoque, which, in turn, came from the Arabic al-birquq. The Arabic word, however, was a transliteration of a Latin adjective, Praecoquum (early ripening), a term that could be applied to any fruit. Term Apple Definition < Old English aeppel Cf. German apfel Term Pie Definition < Middle English pie (shallow pit) < Old French puis < Latin puleus (well) Term Chocolate Definition < Nahuatl chocolatl Term Cake Definition < Middle English kake. Cf. Icelandic kaka, German kuchen, Dutch coek. Cookie is a diminutive form of coek. Term Pretzel Definition < German bretzel (< Latin bracellus = bracelet) Term Coffee Definition < Turkish kahve (< Arabic qahwah). Cf. French café (coffee shop), and cafeteria. Term Tea Definition < Chinese t’e (Amoy dialect); the more common Chinese word is the Mandarin ch’a.