gastronomy

English

Etymology

From French gastronomie from the Greek gastronómia, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastér, “stomach”) and νόμος (nómos, “knowledge, law”). See gastro- (“cooking”) and -nomy (“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ɡæˈstɹɒnəmi/

Noun

Wikipedia gastronomy (usually uncountable; plural gastronomies)

1. The study of the relationship between food and culture.

See also

• cooking

Translations

study of the relationship between food and culture

Basque: gastronomia (eu) Czech: gastronomie (cs) f. Dutch: gastronomie (nl) f. French: gastronomie (fr) f. German: Gastronomie (de) f. Hebrew: גַּסְטְרוֹנוֹמְיָה (gastronomia) f. Hungarian: gasztronómia (hu)

Italian: gastronomia (it) f. Japanese: ガストロノミー (ja) (gasutoronomī) Portuguese: gastronomia (pt) f. Romanian: gastronomie (ro) f. Spanish: gastronomía (es) f. Swedish: gastronomi (sv)