restaurant
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“I restore”), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹɒ̃/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹɒnt/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹ(ə)nt/
Audio (RP, ‘a restaurant’): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛs.t(ə)ˌɹɑnt/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹənt/
- Hyphenation: res‧tau‧rant
Noun edit
restaurant (plural restaurants)
- An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.
- That Italian restaurant serves some of the best food I've ever had in my life.
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
- By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
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- See also Thesaurus:restaurant
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Afrikaans edit
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Etymology edit
From Dutch restaurant, from French restaurant.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
restaurant (plural restaurante or restaurants, diminutive restaurantjie)
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [rəs.təwˈɾan]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [rəs.təwˈɾant]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [res.tawˈɾant]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ant
Noun edit
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
Verb edit
restaurant
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
restaurant c (singular definite restauranten, plural indefinite restauranter)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /rɛstoːˈrɑnt/, /rɛstuˈrɑnt/, /rɛstəˈrɑnt/
Audio (male): (file) Audio (female): (file) - Hyphenation: res‧tau‧rant
- Rhymes: -ɑnt
Noun edit
restaurant n (plural restaurants or restauranten, diminutive restaurantje n)
Usage notes edit
In Belgium, the plural form restauranten is common and co-exists with the plural form restaurants. In the Netherlands, the plural form restauranten is rare.
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- Afrikaans: restaurant
- → Caribbean Hindustani: restoránt
- → Caribbean Javanese: rèstoran, lèstoran
- → Indonesian: restoran
French edit
Etymology edit
From the present participle of restaurer. Corresponds to Latin restaurans, restaurantem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
Participle edit
restaurant
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Descendants edit
- → Bulgarian: ресторант m (restorant)
- → Bengali: রেস্তোরাঁ m (restōrã)
- → Catalan: restaurant m
- → Danish: restaurant c
- → Dutch: restaurant n
- Afrikaans: restaurant
- → Indonesian: restoran
- → English: restaurant
- → German: Restaurant n
- → Hindi: रेस्तराँ m (restarā̃)
- →? Italian: ristorante m
- → Japanese: レストラン (resutoran)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: restaurant m
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: restaurant m
- → Portuguese: restaurante m
- → Romanian: restaurant n
- → Russian: рестора́н (restorán), рестора́нъ (restorán)
- → Uzbek: restoran
- → Yakut: эрэстэрээн (erestereen)
- → Spanish: restaurante m
- → Swedish: restaurang c
- → Turkish: restoran
Further reading edit
- “restaurant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Verb edit
restaurant
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Either inherited from Old French or borrowed from French.
Noun edit
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restauranter, definite plural restaurantene)
References edit
- “restaurant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Noun edit
restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restaurantar, definite plural restaurantane)
References edit
- “restaurant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation edit
Audio: (file)
Noun edit
restaurant n (plural restaurante)
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