Question: Where does the word "cake" come from?
About the article "Cake", section "History".

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The word "plăcintă" comes from Latin "placenta" which means "cake". 
The modern-day confusion in the English language around the word "biscuit" is created by its etymology.
The Middle French word "bescuit" is derived from the Latin words "bis" (twice) and "coquere", "coctus" (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means "twice-cooked".
This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven.
This term was then adapted into English in the 14th century during the Middle Ages, in the Middle English word "bisquite", to represent a hard, twice-baked product.
However, the Dutch language from around 1703 had adopted the word "koekje" ("little cake") to have a similar meaning for a similar hard, baked product.
This may be related to the Russian or Ukrainian translation, where "biscuit" has come to mean "sponge cake".
The difference between the secondary Dutch word and that of Latin origin is that, whereas the "koekje" is a cake that rises during baking, the biscuit, which has no raising agent, in general does not (see gingerbread/ginger biscuit), except for the expansion of heated air during baking.
When Europeans began to emigrate to the United States, the two words and their "same but different" meanings began to clash.
After the American War of Independence against the British, the word cookie or cracker became the word of choice to mean a hard, baked product.
Further confusion has been added by the adoption of the word biscuit for a small leavened bread popular in the United States.
English cookery writer Elizabeth David noted in 1977 that the use of "biscuit" for a soft bread had continued in Scotland, Guernsey and America, where such a product was common.
Today, according to the American English dictionary Merriam-Webster, a cookie is a "small flat or slightly raised cake".
A biscuit is "any of various hard or crisp dry baked product" similar to the American English terms cracker or cookie, or "a small quick bread made from dough that has been rolled out and cut or dropped from a spoon".
In modern Italian usage, the term "biscotto" is used to refer to any type of hard twice-baked biscuit, and not only to the "cantuccini" as in the past. 
In the UK, fruit cakes come in many varieties, from extremely light to rich and moist.
The traditional Christmas cake is a round fruitcake covered in marzipan and then in white satin or royal icing (a hard white icing made with softly beaten egg whites).
They are often further decorated with snow scenes, holly leaves, and berries (real or artificial), or tiny decorative robins or snowmen.
It is also the tradition for this kind of cake to be served at weddings as part of the dessert course.
In Yorkshire, it is often served accompanied with cheese.
Fruit cakes in the United Kingdom often contain currants and glace cherries, an example of this type being the Genoa cake.
One type of cake that originated in Scotland is the Dundee Cake, a type of fruit cake which does not contain glace cherries.
This is a fruit cake that is decorated with almonds, and which owes its name to Keiller's marmalade. 
The English word "flan", and the earlier forms "flaune" and "flawn", come from Old French "flaon" (modern French "flan"), in turn from early Medieval Latin fladōn-em, derived from Old High German "flado", a sort of flat cake, probably from an Indo-European root for "flat" or "broad". 
The professional skier Benjamin Raich and the band Mother's Cake come from the village.