gastronomy

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Archived revision by WingerBot (talk | contribs) as of 02:35, 30 September 2019.
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
An array of food at a Swedish smorgasbord

Etymology

From French gastronomie, from Ancient Greek γαστρονομία (gastronomía), from γαστήρ (gastḗr, stomach) + νόμος (nómos, knowledge, law); analysable as gastro- (cooking) +‎ -nomy (a system of rules or laws about a particular field).

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ɡæˈstɹɒnəmi/
  • Audio (AU):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒnəmi
  • Hyphenation: gas‧tro‧no‧my

Noun

gastronomy (usually uncountable, plural gastronomies)

  1. The art of preparing and eating good food.
  2. The study of the relationship between food and culture.

Translations

See also