apéritif

See also: aperitif and Aperitif

English

Alternative forms

• aperitif

Etymology

Borrowed from French apéritif. Doublet of aperitive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˌpɛɹɪˈtiːf/, /əˌpɛɹɪˈtiːf/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

apéritif (plural apéritifs)

1. An alcoholic drink served before a meal as an appetiser.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
       ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

Antonyms

• digestif

Translations

alcoholic drink served before a meal as an appetiser

• Belarusian: аперыты́ў m (apjerytýŭ), апэрыты́ў m (aperytýŭ)
• Bulgarian: аперити́в (bg) m (aperitív)
• Catalan: aperitiu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 開胃酒／开胃酒 (zh) (kāiwèijiǔ)

• Czech: aperitiv (cs) m
• Esperanto: aperitivo (eo)
• Estonian: aperitiiv
• Finnish: aperitiivi (fi)
• French: apéritif (fr) m, (informal) apéro (fr) m
• German: Aperitif (de) m
• Greek: απεριτίφ (el) n (aperitíf)
• Hungarian: aperitif (hu)
• Ido: aperitivo (io)
• Italian: aperitivo (it) m
• Japanese: アペリティフ (aperitifu), 食前酒 (しょくぜんしゅ, shokuzenshu)
• Korean: 아페리티프 (aperitipeu), 반주(飯酒) (ko) (banju)
• Macedonian: аперитив m (aperitiv)
• Polish: aperitif (pl) m
• Portuguese: aperitivo (pt) m
• Romanian: aperitiv (ro) n
• Russian: аперити́в (ru) m (aperitív)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аперѝтӣв m

  Roman: aperìtīv (sh) m

• Slovak: aperitív m
• Spanish: aperitivo (es) m
• Swedish: aperitif (sv) c, aptitretare (sv) c
• Tagalog: pamutat-alak
• Turkish: aperitif (tr)
• Ukrainian: аперити́в m (aperytýv)

Further reading

• apéritif on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin aperītīvus (“opening”, adjective).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pe.ʁi.tif/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

apéritif m (plural apéritifs)

1. apéritif

   Synonym: (informal) apéro

   Antonym: digestif

Derived terms

• apéritif dinatoire
• apéritif géant

Related terms

• ouvrir

Descendants

• → Dutch: aperitief
  • → Indonesian: aperitif
• → Greek: απεριτίφ (aperitíf)
• → Hungarian: aperitif
• → Polish: aperitif
• → Romanian: aperitiv
• → Turkish: aperitif

Further reading

• “apéritif”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• pétrifia