gourmet
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *grōma (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ɡʊɹˈmeɪ/, /ˈɡʊɹmeɪ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡʊəmeɪ/, /ˈɡɔːmeɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪ
Adjective
[edit]gourmet (not comparable)
- (of food and drink) Fine; of superior quality. [from 1820]
- We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.
- The restaurant offered gourmet coffee and cigars after the meal.
- 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel Jackson):
- [On the coffee] Mmm! God damn, Jimmie! This is some serious gourmet shit!
Usage notes
[edit]Gourmet has become somewhat debased by marketing usage, and is considered by some a pretentious middlebrow term. Such users tend to prefer terms such as artisanal (emphasizing the craft) for fine food.
Coordinate terms
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Noun
[edit]gourmet (plural gourmets)
- A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously.
Usage notes
[edit]Gourmet emphasizes interest in quality of food and enjoyment of eating, sometimes to an obsessive degree: someone who “lives to eat rather than eating to live”. By contrast, a gourmand is someone more interested in quantity of food than quality of food.
Synonyms
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[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]gourmet m (plural gourmets, diminutive gourmetje n)
- a person of refined palate for food and drink, a gourmet, a foodie
- a kind of festive meal, similar to raclette or Chinese hot pot, prepared at the table by the diners in individual pots heated by a raclette grill
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]gourmet
- inflection of gourmetten:
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gourmet
- Alternative form of gurmee
Declension
[edit]Inflection of gourmet (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | gourmet | gourmet’t | |
genitive | gourmet’n | gourmet’iden gourmet’itten | |
partitive | gourmet’ta | gourmet’ita | |
illative | gourmet’hen | gourmet’ihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | gourmet | gourmet’t | |
accusative | nom. | gourmet | gourmet’t |
gen. | gourmet’n | ||
genitive | gourmet’n | gourmet’iden gourmet’itten | |
partitive | gourmet’ta | gourmet’ita | |
inessive | gourmet’ssa | gourmet’issa | |
elative | gourmet’sta | gourmet’ista | |
illative | gourmet’hen | gourmet’ihin | |
adessive | gourmet’lla | gourmet’illa | |
ablative | gourmet’lta | gourmet’ilta | |
allative | gourmet’lle | gourmet’ille | |
essive | gourmet’na | gourmet’ina | |
translative | gourmet’ksi | gourmet’iksi | |
abessive | gourmet’tta | gourmet’itta | |
instructive | — | gourmet’in | |
comitative | — | gourmet’ine |
Noun
[edit]gourmet
- Alternative form of gurmee
Declension
[edit]Inflection of gourmet (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | gourmet | gourmet’t | |
genitive | gourmet’n | gourmet’iden gourmet’itten | |
partitive | gourmet’ta | gourmet’ita | |
illative | gourmet’hen | gourmet’ihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | gourmet | gourmet’t | |
accusative | nom. | gourmet | gourmet’t |
gen. | gourmet’n | ||
genitive | gourmet’n | gourmet’iden gourmet’itten | |
partitive | gourmet’ta | gourmet’ita | |
inessive | gourmet’ssa | gourmet’issa | |
elative | gourmet’sta | gourmet’ista | |
illative | gourmet’hen | gourmet’ihin | |
adessive | gourmet’lla | gourmet’illa | |
ablative | gourmet’lta | gourmet’ilta | |
allative | gourmet’lle | gourmet’ille | |
essive | gourmet’na | gourmet’ina | |
translative | gourmet’ksi | gourmet’iksi | |
abessive | gourmet’tta | gourmet’itta | |
instructive | — | gourmet’in | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “gourmet”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from Old French grommes (“manservant”), from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”) of unknown origin, perhaps from Old English *grōma (“male child, boy, youth”) from Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gourmet m (plural gourmets)
- (of wines) a wine expert, especially one who is adept at determining the label, date, and sundry other qualities solely by smatch
- (more commonly) a culinary connoisseur, gourmet
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “gourmet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French gourmet.
Noun
[edit]gourmet m or f by sense (invariable)
Further reading
[edit]- gourmet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French gourmet.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: gour‧met
Adjective
[edit]gourmet (invariable)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]gourmet m or f by sense (plural gourmets)
- gourmet (a person who appreciates good food)
Further reading
[edit]- “gourmet”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French gourmet.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gourmet m or f (masculine and feminine plural gourmets)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
[edit]- “gourmet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]gourmet c
Declension
[edit]Declension of gourmet | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | gourmet | gourmeten | gourmeter | gourmeterna |
Genitive | gourmets | gourmetens | gourmeters | gourmeternas |
See also
[edit]References
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- Finnish terms borrowed from French
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