menu
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛnjuː/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈmɛnju/
- (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA(key): /ˈmɛnɪu̯/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnjuː
Noun edit
menu (plural menus)
- The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.
- A list containing the food and beverages served at a restaurant, café, or bar. Menus may be printed on paper sheets provided to customers, put on a large poster or display board inside the establishment, displayed outside the restaurant, or digital.
- The server handed us the menu.
- We selected duck pâté and chicken goujons from the menu.
- The food or drinks that are available in a restaurant, café, or bar.
- They took the chicken sandwich off their menu.
- We've added a few new dishes to our menu.
- (computing, gaming) A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface
- A list or agenda.
- What's on the menu for today's meeting?
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Cebuano: menu
- → Gulf Arabic: منيو (minyu)
- → Japanese: メニュー
- → Thai: เมนู (mee-nuu)
- → Tok Pisin: menyu
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Verb edit
menu (third-person singular simple present menus, present participle menuing, simple past and past participle menued)
- (transitive, rare) To include (something) in a menu.
- 1991, Food Management, volume 26, page 139:
- He created this prize-winning dish last December, to serve at a catered dinner that honored benefactors of Nashua Memorial Hospital. At that elaborate holiday repast, Quimby menued the seafood dish as a first course. However, he noted, his dish is substantial enough to serve as a satisfying entree.
- 1991, School Food Service Journal, volume 45, page 65:
- […] held their own, then that child nutrition program would consider menuing the product in the future. Kater knew he was in trouble when he saw what he was up against that day: pizza and chicken nuggets, two of the most popular school lunches served in today’s schools.
- 2001, Restaurant Business, volume 100, page 90, column 1:
- “Menuing a bisque allows you to charge another dollar or two for the soup. Instead of $8, I can charge $11,” says Beacon’s chef and an owner, Waldy Malouf.
- 2002, Restaurant Business, volume 101, page 86, column 3:
- He first menued the chop two years ago, expecting a short run, but has seen surprising customer loyalty: “If I took it off the menu, there would be an uprising.”
- 2003, Restaurant Business, volume 102, page 66, column 3:
- […] scale chef who couldn’t resist menuing the classic. But unlike Regis, Gardner’s take has a few unexpected extras.
- 2009, Chef, volume 53, page 20:
- Depending upon your customer base, you may want to menu options that are gluten-free (G-F), vegan, macrobiotic, organic or even create a healthful kids’ menu. In fact, none of these categories are mutually exclusive, so you might consider menuing a dessert like Brownies with Cashew Cream, a popular item fitting all those categories, served at the Cal Dining-sponsored “Raw Food Chef Night” at the University of California, Berkeley ([…]).
- 2019, Alan Paris, Filament II: Brighten the World, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:
- Along with the meats, local Gnocchi, Borgotaro malfatti, made from ricotta, herbs, and spinach were menued. The mixture contained eggs and breadcrumbs to bind the ingredients, the chef optioning grated cheese. White truffles, Borgotaro mushrooms and stuffed tortellini bordered the fresh fish catch of the day. The bishop explained, “You’ll find our tastings vary significantly from the cuisine served at your restaurants in New York City– where the Neapolitan and Sicilian sauces are prevalent. […]”
See also edit
Further reading edit
- menu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- menu (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
Afrikaans edit
Noun edit
menu (plural menu's)
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From English menu, from French menu. Doublet of minuto and menudo.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: me‧nu
Noun edit
menu
- a bill of fare
- a menu; a list of dishes offered in a restaurant
- a computer menu
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:menu.
Chamicuro edit
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menu
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menu
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menu n (indeclinable)
- menu
- denní menu ― daily menu
- uživatelské menu ― user menu
Further reading edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
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menu c (singular definite menuen, plural indefinite menuer)
- menu (all senses)
Inflection edit
Further reading edit
- menu on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch edit
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menu n (plural menu's, diminutive menuutje n)
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Estonian edit
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menu (genitive menu, partitive menu)
Declension edit
Declension of menu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | menu | menud | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | menu | ||
genitive | menude | ||
partitive | menu | menusid | |
illative | mennu menusse |
menudesse | |
inessive | menus | menudes | |
elative | menust | menudest | |
allative | menule | menudele | |
adessive | menul | menudel | |
ablative | menult | menudelt | |
translative | menuks | menudeks | |
terminative | menuni | menudeni | |
essive | menuna | menudena | |
abessive | menuta | menudeta | |
comitative | menuga | menudega |
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Noun edit
menu
- menu, bill of fare (details of the food to be served at a banquet)
- Synonyms: menukortti, menyy
- Synonym of ruokalista (“menu”) (printed list of dishes offered in a restaurant)
- (computing) Synonym of valikko (“menu”) (list from which the user may select an operation to be performed)
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Inflection of menu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | menu | menut | ||
genitive | menun | menujen | ||
partitive | menua | menuja | ||
illative | menuun | menuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | menu | menut | ||
accusative | nom. | menu | menut | |
gen. | menun | |||
genitive | menun | menujen | ||
partitive | menua | menuja | ||
inessive | menussa | menuissa | ||
elative | menusta | menuista | ||
illative | menuun | menuihin | ||
adessive | menulla | menuilla | ||
ablative | menulta | menuilta | ||
allative | menulle | menuille | ||
essive | menuna | menuina | ||
translative | menuksi | menuiksi | ||
abessive | menutta | menuitta | ||
instructive | — | menuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Inflection of menu (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | menu | menut | ||
genitive | menun | menuiden menuitten | ||
partitive | menuta | menuita | ||
illative | menuhyn menuhun |
menuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | menu | menut | ||
accusative | nom. | menu | menut | |
gen. | menun | |||
genitive | menun | menuiden menuitten | ||
partitive | menuta | menuita | ||
inessive | menussa | menuissa | ||
elative | menusta | menuista | ||
illative | menuhyn menuhun |
menuihin | ||
adessive | menulla | menuilla | ||
ablative | menulta | menuilta | ||
allative | menulle | menuille | ||
essive | menuna | menuina | ||
translative | menuksi | menuiksi | ||
abessive | menutta | menuitta | ||
instructive | — | menuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Inflection of menu (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | menu | menut | ||
genitive | menun | menuiden menuitten | ||
partitive | menutä | menuitä | ||
illative | menuhyn menuhun |
menuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | menu | menut | ||
accusative | nom. | menu | menut | |
gen. | menun | |||
genitive | menun | menuiden menuitten | ||
partitive | menutä | menuitä | ||
inessive | menussä | menuissä | ||
elative | menustä | menuistä | ||
illative | menuhyn menuhun |
menuihin | ||
adessive | menullä | menuillä | ||
ablative | menultä | menuiltä | ||
allative | menulle | menuille | ||
essive | menunä | menuinä | ||
translative | menuksi | menuiksi | ||
abessive | menuttä | menuittä | ||
instructive | — | menuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “menu”, 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 2023-07-03
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French menu, from Old French menu, from Latin minūtus (“minute, tiny”). Doublet of minute.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
menu (feminine menue, masculine plural menus, feminine plural menues)
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
menu m (plural menus)
- detailed list
- menu; a set meal on a menu
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Albanian: meny
- → Azerbaijani: menyu
- → Belarusian: меню (mjenju)
- → Bengali: মেনু (menu)
- → Bulgarian: меню (menju)
- → Burmese: မီနူး (minu:)
- → Catalan: menú
- → Crimean Tatar: menü
- → Czech: menu
- → Danish: menu
- → Dutch: menu
- → English: menu
- → Estonian: menüü
- → Finnish: menu
- → Georgian: მენიუ (meniu)
- → German: Menü
- → Greek: μενού (menoú)
- → Hindi: मेनू (menū)
- → Hungarian: menü
- → Indonesian: menu
- → Italian: menu
- → Japanese: メニュー (menyū)
- → Khmer: ម៉ឺនុយ (məɨnuy)
- → Korean: 메뉴 (menyu)
- → Kyrgyz: меню (menyu)
- → Lao: ເມນູ (mē nū)
- → Lithuanian: meniu
- → Macedonian: мени (meni)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: meny
- → Polish: menu
- → Portuguese: menu
- → Romanian: meniu
- → Russian: меню (menju)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: menú
- → Swedish: meny
- → Tajik: меню (menyu)
- → Turkish: menü
- → Turkmen: menýu
- → Ukrainian: меню́ (menjú)
- → Uzbek: menyu
Further reading edit
- “menu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of minuto.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
menu m (invariable)
Anagrams edit
Lithuanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
menù
Verb edit
menù
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French menu.
Adjective edit
menu m (feminine singular menue, masculine plural menus, feminine plural menues)
Antonyms edit
Descendants edit
- French: menu (see there for further descendants)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
menu m (oblique and nominative feminine singular menue or menude)
- small
- 12th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:
- Trenche la coife de son hauberc menu
- He cut off the head of his small coat of armor
Declension edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (menu)
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Unadapted borrowing from French menu. Doublet of minuta.
Noun edit
menu n (indeclinable)
- menu, bill of fare (details of the food to be served at a banquet)
- menu (printed list of dishes offered in a restaurant)
Etymology 2 edit
Unadapted borrowing from English menu.
Noun edit
menu n (indeclinable)
- (computing, video games) menu (list from which the user may select an operation to be performed)
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French menu.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: me‧nu
Noun edit
menu m (plural menus)
- menu (printed list of dishes offered in a restaurant)
- (computing) menu (list from which the user may select an option)
References edit
- ^ “menu” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “menu” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- ^ FLiP Dúvidas
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
menu (Cyrillic spelling мену)
Slovak edit
Etymology 1 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
menu f
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
menu n
Etymology 3 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
menu n (indeclinable)
Further reading edit
- “menu”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
menu n (plural menu's, diminutive menuke)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “menu”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011