banquet

English

State Banquet.--Serving the Peacock.--Facsimile of a woodcut in an edition of Virgil, folio, published at Lyons in 1517.

A Chinese painting of an outdoor banquet, from the era of the Song Dynasty (960-1279).

Etymology

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”), 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbæŋkwɪt/

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Noun

banquet (plural banquets)

1. A large celebratory meal; a feast.

Translations

a large celebratory meal; a feast

• Albanian: banket (sq)
• Armenian: խնջույք (hy) (xnǰuyk’) , քեֆ (hy) (k’ef) 
• Basque: oturuntza (eu)
• Bulgarian: банкет (bg) (bankét) m , пир (bg) (pir) m 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宴會 (cmn), 宴会 (cmn) (yànhuì), 筵席 (cmn) (yánxí), 盛宴 (cmn) (shèngyàn)

• Danish: middag (da), banket (da)
• Dutch: banket (nl) n, feestmaal (nl) n, feestdis (nl) m
• Esperanto: bankedo (eo)
• Finnish: juhla-ateria (fi), banketti (fi), kestit (fi)
• French: banquet (fr) m, festin (fr) m
• Georgian: ლხინი (ka) (lxini) 
• German: Festmahl (de) n, Bankett (de) n
• Greek: ευωχία (el) (evochía) f 
• Hungarian: bankett (hu), díszebéd (hu), díszvacsora (hu), lakoma (hu)

• Icelandic: matarveisla (is) f, stórveisla (is) f, fjöldaveisla (is) f
• Irish: fleá (ga) f, cóisir (ga) f
• Italian: pranzo festivo (it) m, banchetto (it) m
• Japanese: 宴会 (ja) (えんかい, enkai), 饗宴 (ja) (きょうえん, kyōen), バンケット (ja) (banketto)
• Latin: festum (la)
• Maltese: ikla (mt) f
• Manx: cuirrey (gv), fleah (gv)
• Polish: bankiet (pl) m
• Portuguese: banquete (pt)
• Russian: банкет (ru) (bankét) m , пир (ru) (pir) m , пиршество (ru) (píršestvo) n , пирушка (ru) (pirúška) f , празднество (ru) (prázdnestvo) n , празднование (ru) (prázdnovanije) n 
• Scottish Gaelic: bangaid (gd) f, cuirm (gd) f, fèisd (gd) f, fleadh (gd) m
• Spanish: comida festiva (es) f, banquete (es) m

Verb

banquet (third-person singular simple present banquets, present participle banqueting, simple past and past participle banqueted)

1. To participate in a banquet; to feast.
   • Milton

     Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets, I would not taste thy treasonous offer.

2. (obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
   • Cavendish

     Where they did both sup and banquet.

3. To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
   • Coleridge

     Just in time to banquet / The illustrious company assembled there.

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French

Etymology

Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), 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 Proto-Germanic source.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /bɑ̃.kɛ/, X-SAMPA: /bA~.kE/

Noun

banquet m (plural banquets)

1. banquet