restaurant

Etymology

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹɒnt/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹɑ̃/

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛs.t(ə)ˌɹɑnt/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹənt/

Noun

restaurant (plural restaurants)

1. An eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.
   • 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.

See also

• bar
• cook, chef
• drive-in
• fast food
• grill
• menu, Appendix:Menus
• slow food
• waiter m, waitress f, waitron

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin restaurans, restaurantem; calque of French restaurant.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

restaurant m (plural restaurants)

1. restaurant

Verb

restaurant

1. present participle of restaurar

Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛstoːˈrɑnt/

• Audio

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Noun

restaurant n (plural restaurants or restauranten, diminutive restaurantje n)

1. restaurant

Etymology

From the present participle of restaurer. Corresponds to Latin restaurans, restaurantem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛs.to.ʁɑ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

restaurant m (plural restaurants)

1. restaurant

Verb

restaurant

1. present participle of restaurer

Further reading

• “restaurant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Verb

rēstaurant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of rēstaurō

Etymology

Either inherited from Old French or borrowed from French.

Noun

restaurant m (plural restaurants)

1. restaurant

Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛstʉˈrɑŋ/

Noun

restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restauranter, definite plural restaurantene)

1. a restaurant

References

• “restaurant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

Noun

restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restaurantar, definite plural restaurantane)

1. a restaurant

References

• “restaurant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

Noun

restaurant n (plural restaurante)

1. restaurant