gourmet
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *grōma (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.
Pronunciation edit
- (US) IPA(key): /ɡʊɹˈmeɪ/, /ˈɡʊɹmeɪ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡʊəmeɪ/, /ˈɡɔːmeɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪ
Adjective edit
gourmet (not comparable)
- (of food and drink) Fine; of superior quality. [from 1820]
- We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.
- The restaurant offered gourmet coffee and cigars after the meal.
Usage notes edit
Gourmet has become somewhat debased by marketing usage, and is considered by some a pretentious middlebrow term. Such users tend to prefer terms such as artisanal (emphasizing the craft) for fine food.
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Noun edit
gourmet (plural gourmets)
- A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously.
Usage notes edit
Gourmet emphasizes interest in quality of food and enjoyment of eating, sometimes to an obsessive degree: someone who “lives to eat rather than eating to live”. By contrast, a gourmand is someone more interested in quantity of food than quality of food.
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Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
gourmet m (plural gourmets, diminutive gourmetje n)
- a person of refined palate for food and drink, a gourmet, a foodie
- a kind of festive meal, similar to raclette or Chinese hot pot, prepared at the table by the diners in individual pots heated by a raclette grill
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
gourmet
- inflection of gourmetten:
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
gourmet
- Alternative form of gurmee
Declension edit
Inflection of gourmet (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | gourmet | gourmet’t | |
genitive | gourmet’n | gourmet’iden gourmet’itten | |
partitive | gourmet’ta | gourmet’ita | |
illative | gourmet’hen | gourmet’ihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | gourmet | gourmet’t | |
accusative | nom. | gourmet | gourmet’t |
gen. | gourmet’n | ||
genitive | gourmet’n | gourmet’iden gourmet’itten | |
partitive | gourmet’ta | gourmet’ita | |
inessive | gourmet’ssa | gourmet’issa | |
elative | gourmet’sta | gourmet’ista | |
illative | gourmet’hen | gourmet’ihin | |
adessive | gourmet’lla | gourmet’illa | |
ablative | gourmet’lta | gourmet’ilta | |
allative | gourmet’lle | gourmet’ille | |
essive | gourmet’na | gourmet’ina | |
translative | gourmet’ksi | gourmet’iksi | |
abessive | gourmet’tta | gourmet’itta | |
instructive | — | gourmet’in | |
comitative | — | gourmet’ine |
Noun edit
gourmet
- Alternative form of gurmee
Declension edit
Inflection of gourmet (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | gourmet | gourmet’t | ||
genitive | gourmet’n | gourmet’iden gourmet’itten | ||
partitive | gourmet’ta | gourmet’ita | ||
illative | gourmet’hen | gourmet’ihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | gourmet | gourmet’t | ||
accusative | nom. | gourmet | gourmet’t | |
gen. | gourmet’n | |||
genitive | gourmet’n | gourmet’iden gourmet’itten | ||
partitive | gourmet’ta | gourmet’ita | ||
inessive | gourmet’ssa | gourmet’issa | ||
elative | gourmet’sta | gourmet’ista | ||
illative | gourmet’hen | gourmet’ihin | ||
adessive | gourmet’lla | gourmet’illa | ||
ablative | gourmet’lta | gourmet’ilta | ||
allative | gourmet’lle | gourmet’ille | ||
essive | gourmet’na | gourmet’ina | ||
translative | gourmet’ksi | gourmet’iksi | ||
abessive | gourmet’tta | gourmet’itta | ||
instructive | — | gourmet’in | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “gourmet”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from Old French grommes (“manservant”), from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”) of unknown origin, perhaps from Old English *grōma (“male child, boy, youth”) from Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gourmet m (plural gourmets)
- (of wines) a wine expert, especially one who is adept at determining the label, date, and sundry other qualities solely by smatch
- (more commonly) a culinary connoisseur, gourmet
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “gourmet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French gourmet.
Noun edit
gourmet m or f by sense (invariable)
Further reading edit
- gourmet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French gourmet.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: gour‧met
Adjective edit
gourmet (invariable)
Noun edit
gourmet m or f by sense (plural gourmets)
- gourmet (a person who appreciates good food)
Further reading edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French gourmet.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
gourmet m or f (masculine and feminine plural gourmets)
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading edit
- “gourmet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Noun edit
gourmet c
Declension edit
Declension of gourmet | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | gourmet | gourmeten | gourmeter | gourmeterna |
Genitive | gourmets | gourmetens | gourmeters | gourmeternas |