restaurant
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“I restore”), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹɒ̃/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹɒnt/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹ(ə)nt/
Audio (Received Pronunciation); “a restaurant”: (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛs.t(ə)ˌɹɑnt/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹənt/
- Hyphenation: res‧tau‧rant
Noun
[edit]restaurant (plural restaurants)
- An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.
- That Italian restaurant serves some of the best food I've ever had in my life.
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
- By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:restaurant
Derived terms
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See also
[edit]- bar
- cook, chef
- drive-in
- fast food
- grill
- menu, Appendix:Menus
- slow food
- waiter m, waitress f, waitron
Afrikaans
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch restaurant, from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]restaurant (plural restaurante or restaurants, diminutive restaurantjie)
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [rəs.təwˈɾan]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [rəs.təwˈɾant]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [res.tawˈɾant]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ant
Noun
[edit]restaurant m (plural restaurants)
Verb
[edit]restaurant
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]restaurant c (singular definite restauranten, plural indefinite restauranter)
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /rɛstoːˈrɑnt/, /rɛstuˈrɑnt/, /rɛstəˈrɑnt/
Audio (male voice): (file) Audio (female voice): (file) - Hyphenation: res‧tau‧rant
- Rhymes: -ɑnt
Noun
[edit]restaurant n (plural restaurants or restauranten, diminutive restaurantje n)
Usage notes
[edit]In Belgium, the plural form restauranten is common and co-exists with the plural form restaurants. In the Netherlands, the plural form restauranten is rare.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: restaurant
- → Caribbean Hindustani: restoránt
- → Caribbean Javanese: rèstoran, lèstoran
- → Indonesian: restoran
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the present participle of restaurer. Corresponds to Latin restaurans, restaurantem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]restaurant m (plural restaurants)
Participle
[edit]restaurant
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Bulgarian: ресторант m (restorant)
- → Bengali: রেস্তোরাঁ m (restōrã)
- → Catalan: restaurant m
- → Danish: restaurant c
- → Dutch: restaurant n
- Afrikaans: restaurant
- → Indonesian: restoran
- → English: restaurant
- → German: Restaurant n
- → Hindi: रेस्तराँ m (restarā̃)
- →? Italian: ristorante m
- → Japanese: レストラン (resutoran)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: restaurant m
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: restaurant m
- → Portuguese: restaurante m
- → Romanian: restaurant n
- → Russian: рестора́н (restorán), рестора́нъ (restorán) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
- → Uzbek: restoran
- → Yakut: эрэстэрээн (erestereen)
- → Spanish: restaurante m
- → Swedish: restaurang c
- → Turkish: restoran
Further reading
[edit]- “restaurant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]restaurant
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Either inherited from Old French or borrowed from French.
Noun
[edit]restaurant m (plural restaurants)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restauranter, definite plural restaurantene)
References
[edit]- “restaurant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French restaurant.
Noun
[edit]restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restaurantar, definite plural restaurantane)
References
[edit]- “restaurant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]restaurant n (plural restaurante)
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