digestif

See also: Digestif

English

WOTD – 20 April 2016

Grappa is most often taken as a digestif

Etymology

Borrowed from French digestif. Doublet of digestive.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /daɪˈdʒɛstɪf/, /ˌdiːʒɛsˈtiːf/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Hyphenation: di‧ges‧tif

Noun

digestif (plural digestifs)

1. An alcoholic beverage consumed after eating, so called because it is presumed to aid digestion.

   Antonym: apéritif

   • 2007 June 27, Rob Willey, “A Bit of History, Reborn in a Glass”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 June 2021:

     At Vessel, in Seattle, the bar manager, Jamie Boudreau, starts his cherry bitters by combining separate bourbon- and rye-based infusions with a touch of honey-flavored vodka and the Italian digestif amaro.

Translations

beverage

• Czech: digestiv (cs) m
• Finnish: digestiivi (fi), (with coffee) avec (fi)
• French: digestif (fr) m
• German: Digestif (de)
• Irish: díleáiteog f, deochín don ghoile m
• Russian: дижести́в (ru) m (dižestív)
• Turkish: dijestif

French

Etymology

From Old French digestif.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ʒɛs.tif/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Adjective

digestif (feminine digestive, masculine plural digestifs, feminine plural digestives)

1. digestive

Derived terms

• tube digestif

Noun

digestif m (plural digestifs)

1. a digestive
2. a digestif

Antonyms

• apéritif

Derived terms

• digeo

Descendants

• → Czech: digestiv
• → Dutch: digestief
  • → Indonesian: digestif
• → English: digestif
• → German: Digestif

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch digestief, from French digestif, from Late Latin dīgestīvus.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /diˈɡɛstif/ [diˈɡɛs.t̪ɪf]
• Rhymes: -ɛstif
• Syllabification: di‧ges‧tif

Adjective

digestif (comparative lebih digestif, superlative paling digestif)

1. digestive

Further reading

• “digestif”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Old French

Etymology

First known attestation circa 1265, borrowed from Late Latin dīgestīvus.

Noun

digestif oblique singular, m (oblique plural digestis, nominative singular digestis, nominative plural digestif)

1. a digestive (substance that aids digestion)

Adjective

digestif m (oblique and nominative feminine singular digestive)

1. digestive (that aids digestion)

Descendants

• French: digestif

References

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “digestif”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• digestif on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub