banquet
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Middle English banket, from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), of Germanic origin, from Lombardic *bank, panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benc (“bench”). More at bank, bench.
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banquet (plural banquets)
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banquet (third-person singular simple present banquets, present participle banqueting, simple past and past participle banqueted)
- To participate in a banquet.
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[edit] Etymology
Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), of Germanic origin, from Lombardic *bank, panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benc (“bench”). Compare Old French banquet, which only meant "small bench", from the same Germanic source.
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banquet m. (plural banquets)
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- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms derived from Germanic languages
- English terms derived from Lombardic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- French terms derived from Middle French
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- French terms derived from Lombardic
- French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- French terms derived from Old French
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