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Leavening
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noun
1.
a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
2.
fermented dough reserved for producing fermentation in a new batch of dough.
3.
an element that produces an altering or transforming influence.
verb (used with object)
4.
to add leaven to (dough or batter) and cause to rise.
5.
to permeate with an altering or transforming element.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English levain < Anglo-French, Old French levain < Vulgar Latin *levāmen, equivalent to Latin levā(re) to raise + -men deverbal noun suffix (probably not continuous with Latin levāmen means of alleviating, solace)
1300–50; Middle English levain < Anglo-French, Old French levain < Vulgar Latin *levāmen, equivalent to Latin levā(re) to raise + -men deverbal noun suffix (probably not continuous with Latin levāmen means of alleviating, solace)
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Word Origin & History
leaven
mid-14c., from O.Fr. levain (12c.), from L. levamen "alleviation, mitigation," but used in V.L. in its literal sense of "a means of lifting, something that raises," from levare "to raise" (see lever). The verb is attested from early 15c.
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