délicatesse
See also: delicatesse
French edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French delicatesse, equivalent to délicat + -esse, probably modelled on Italian delicatezza.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
délicatesse f (plural délicatesses)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Dutch: delicatesse
- → German: Delikatesse
- → Czech: delikatesa
- → English: delicatessen, delikatessen (via plural)
- → Spanish: delicatessen, delicatesen
- → Polish: delikates
- → Romanian: delicatesă
- → Norwegian Bokmål: delikatesse
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: delikatesse
- → Romanian: delicatețe
- → Russian: деликате́с (delikatés)
- → Serbo-Croatian: delikatèsa/деликатѐса
- → Swedish: delikatess
- → Ukrainian: делікате́с (delikatés)
- → Yiddish: דעליקאַטעס (delikates)
References edit
- ^ Etymology and history of “délicatesse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading edit
- “délicatesse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.