pake

See also: PAKE, pakë, pakę, pàke, pāke, and Pākē

English

Etymology

Blend of pie +‎ cake.

Noun

pake (plural pakes)

1. (informal) Synonym of piecake.
   • 2014 July 1, Nancy Stohs, “Bake a pie in a cake to make a ‘pake,’ because why not?”, in The Brownsville Herald, volume 122, number 363, page C2:

     Cherry pie baked inside a chocolate cake, for a dandy Black Forest pake.

   • 2014 November 21, The Garden Island, section “TGIFR!DAY” (volume 2, number 46), page 5:

     Pie specials include pumpkin, pumpkin crunch, pumpkin pecan, pumpkin haupia, gluten-free pumpkin pake (cake meets pie), pumpkin pake, cranberry walnut pudding, chocolate chip pecan and rum pecan.

   • 2015 November 18, Patricia Corrigan, “Sweet! St. Louis thrives with pies”, in St. Louis Jewish Light, volume 68, number 44, page 1B:

     We honor foot-high pie, oatmeal pecan pie, “pake” (that’s a pie baked inside a cake), apple green chili pecan pie, levee-high pie and even gooey butter cake pie.

Anagrams

• peak, kaep, Paek, Peak, kape

Indonesian

Verb

pake

1. alternative form of pakai

Latin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.kɛ/

Noun

pake f

1. (African Romance) alternative spelling of pācem: peace

References

• Lorenzetti, Luca; Schirru, Giancarlo (2010), Leptis magna. Una città e le sue iscrizioni in epoca tardoromana, Cassino: Università di Cassino, →ISBN, Un indizio della conservazione di /k/ dinanzi a vocale anteriore nell'epigrafia cristiana di Tripolitania, page 308, 311 of 303–311
• Loporcaro, Michele (2015), Vowel Length from Latin to Romance (Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics)‎^[1], volume 10, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 49

Middle English

Noun

pake

1. alternative form of pak

Swahili

Adjective

pake

1. pa class_(XVI) inflected form of -ake

West Frisian

Etymology

Possibly abbreviation of baby talk word papa with diminutive suffix -ke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːkə/

Noun

pake c (plural paken, diminutive paakje)

1. grandpa, grandfather

   Coordinate term: beppe

2. old man

Derived terms

• pakesizzer

Further reading

• “pake”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ke/

Adverb

pake

1. an intensifier: very, really, etc.

   wolot nao ma imaulu pake ― that sea there is very deep

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics