Toast
/toʊst/noun
Bread browned by heat, or a person or thing honored with a drink; also to heat or brown food.
Did you know?The drinking-toast sense comes from the custom of flavoring wine with spiced toast, and the word then shifted to the person being honored by the cup.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
tostus
“burnt, scorched; dried by heat”
Old French
Old French
toste
“toasted bread; a slice of bread browned or soaked in wine”
Middle English
English
toost
“toasted bread”
16th Century
English
toast
“a piece of bread browned by heat; later, a person honored in drinking”
Modern English
English
toast
“bread browned by heat; to honor with a drink; the person or thing honored”