cake – English noun declension

English noun forms of cake

Noun: cake
Singularcake
Pluralcakes

Sample Sentences

  • On Monday afternoon, Ronya attends a birthday party and eats cake whenever cake is presented to her. [2025 June 13, Rhys Southan, Helena Ward, Jen Semler, “A timing problem for instrumental convergence”, in Philosophical Studies, Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:]
  • an oatmeal cake
  • a johnnycake
  • buckwheat cakes
  • a cake of soap
  • a cake of sand
  • Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood. [1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • Now that I escape, sleepwalk awake / Those who could relate know the world ain't cake [1996, “Ready or Not”, in The Score, performed by Fugees:]
  • "It looks like the cake philosophy is still alive." Quote attributed to Donald Tusk. [2018, The Guardian, "UK's aspirations for post-Brexit trade deal an illusion, says Donald Tusk", Daniel Boffey, Peter Walker, Jennifer Rankin, and Heather Stewart, 23 February 2018]
  • Since I started doing squats, I've built up some serious cake.
  • I am aware of the efforts made to contest the relevance of these statistics... But you cannot get away from the fact that a low gdp means a smaller national cake and that there is less wealth to go round. [1979 March 31, Nicholas Henderson, Britain's Decline: Its Causes and Consequences:]
  • "The Lord Mayor can say tart things," said Hobler to a scavenger. "Yes," replied the dustman, "he does say things that are tart, which is not to be wondered at when we know him to be a regular cake." [1834, Figaro in London, volume 3, page 195:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *kakǭ
3. Old Norse kakabor.
4. Middle English cake
5. English cake
6. From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry). See: Middle English Nouns 'cake', Old Norse Nouns 'kaka'.

Verbs referencing "cake"

Dutch Nouns cake, French Nouns cake, Catalan Nouns coca, English Nouns quiche, Swedish Nouns koka, Portuguese Nouns queque, Spanish Nouns queque, Spanish Nouns quequito, Zulu Nouns ikhekhe, Russian Nouns кек, Romanian Nouns chec.