restaurateur

English

Alternative forms

• restauranteur (but see usage note)

Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurateur.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛst(ə)ɹəˈtɜː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

restaurateur (plural restaurateurs)

1. The owner of a restaurant.

Usage notes

This is also spelled restauranteur (with an n), but this is considered erroneous by some, and the form restaurateur (without the n) is preferred in formal writing, and especially in the United Kingdom.

The form restaurateur (without the n) is the earlier form, borrowed from French, while the form restauranteur (with an n) = restaurant + -eur (“(agent) one who”) is a later formation, from Anglicized forms, and thus seen by some as an etymological error.

However, restauranteur is widely used, and can be found in formal British writing.

Related terms

• (female): restaurateuse, restauratrice

Translations

owner of a restaurant

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 餐館老闆／餐馆老板 (cānguǎn lǎobǎn)

• Czech: restauratér (cs) m
• Danish: restauratør c
• Faroese: matstovuvertur m
• Finnish: ravintoloitsija (fi), ravintolanpitäjä
• French: restaurateur (fr) m, restauratrice (fr) f
• German: Restaurantbesitzer (de) m, Restaurantbesitzerin (de) f, Restaurantbetreiber m, Restaurantbetreiberin f, Gastronom (de) m, Gastronomin (de) f, Gastwirt (de) m, Gastwirtin (de) f, Restaurateur (de) m, Restaurateurin f
• Greek: εστιάτορας (el) m (estiátoras)
• Hungarian: étterem-tulajdonos, vendéglős (hu)
• Icelandic: veitingamaður m
• Italian: ristoratore (it) m, ristoratrice f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xwarinxanevan, xwarinxanedar, restorator

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: restauratør m

  Nynorsk: restauratør m

• Polish: restaurator (pl) m, restauratorka f
• Russian: ресторатор (ru) m (restorator)
• Swedish: restauratör (sv) c

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁa.tœʁ/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin restaurātōrem.

Noun

restaurateur m (plural restaurateurs, feminine restauratrice)

1. restorer (of a work of art)

Etymology 2

From restaurer +‎ -ateur.

Noun

restaurateur m (plural restaurateurs, feminine restauratrice)

1. restaurateur, restaurant owner

Related terms

• restaurateuse (rare feminine form)

Further reading

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