dessert
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”.
Note: It was erroneously suggested (e.g. in "Glucose syrups: Technology and Applications" (Peter Hull, 2010)) that the word is derived from the name of Benjamin Delessert, the inventor of beet sugar. However, the term predates him by at least a century.
Pronunciation
Noun
dessert (countable and uncountable, plural desserts)
- A sweet confection served as the last course of a meal
Derived terms
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Danish
Etymology
From French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”).
Inflection
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | dessert | desserten | desserter | desserterne |
genitive | desserts | dessertens | desserters | desserternes |
Estonian
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.sɛʁ/
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Further reading
- “dessert” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
dessert m (definite singular desserten, indefinite plural desserter, definite plural dessertene)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
dessert m (definite singular desserten, indefinite plural dessertar, definite plural dessertane)
Romansch
Noun
dessert m (plural desserts)
West Frisian
Further reading
- “dessert”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011