restaurateur
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- restauranteur (but see usage note)
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French restaurateur.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
restaurateur (plural restaurateurs)
- The owner of a restaurant.
Usage notesEdit
This is also spelled restauranteur (with an n), but this is considered erroneous by some, and the form restaurateur (without the n) is preferred in formal writing, and especially in the United Kingdom.[1]
The form restaurateur (without the n) is the earlier form, borrowed from French, while the form restauranteur (with an n) = restaurant + -eur (“(agent) one who”) is a later formation, from Anglicized forms, and thus seen by some as an etymological error.
However, restauranteur is widely used, and can be found in formal British writing.[2]
Related termsEdit
- (female): restaurateuse, restauratrice
TranslationsEdit
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ restaurateur, restauranteur (nn.), Kenneth G. Wilson, The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, 1993
- ^ See for instance Me and my travels: Raymond Blanc, restauranteur, in The Guardian and The Observer, 2008–10–12
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Late Latin restaurator.
NounEdit
restaurateur m (plural restaurateurs, feminine restauratrice)
- restorer (of a work of art)
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
restaurateur m (plural restaurateurs, feminine restauratrice)
- restaurateur, restaurant owner
Related termsEdit
- restaurateuse (rare feminine form)
Further readingEdit
- “restaurateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.