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panify en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpænɪfaɪ/

Etymology

From Latin panis (“bread”) + Latin -ificāre (“-ify”).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To turn into bread.
    • In 1844, M. Durand made several attempts to panify pure gluten, […] 1855, The Chemist, page 88:
    • […] if Panogen spilled out on a sack of flour, it would not distribute itself in a homogeneous fashion, but would collect in a single spot and create an extremely hard crust of brilliant red which would be immediately recognizable to a baker who tried to panify it. 1969, The Day of St Anthony's Fire, page 233:
    • It is difficult to panify but it may be aerated. 2021, The Bread Book, page 447:
    • He also directed his scorn at Parmentier and Cadet de Vaux’s recent attempts to panify potatoes, charging them with seeking to disfigure the gifts of Nature: why take a production which served its nutritional purpose perfectly well when boiled or baked, and force it to assume a different form? 2014, Feeding France, page 78:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
panifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
panifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
panified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
panified Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

panifiable · panification

Translations (4)

pt panificar (Translations) · es panificar (Translations) · fr panifier (Translations) · it panificare (Translations)