dessert

See also: desert, dêssèrt, and 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

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈzɜːt/
  • (US) enPR: dĭ-zûrt, IPA(key): /dɪˈzɝt/
  • (file)
  • Homophone: desert (verb)
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Noun

dessert (countable and uncountable, plural desserts)

  1. A sweet confection served as the last course of a meal

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Danish

Etymology

From French dessert, from desservir (disserve), from dés- (dis-) and servir (serve).

Noun

dessert c (singular definite desserten, plural indefinite desserter)

  1. dessert

Inflection


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

dessert n (plural desserts, diminutive dessertje n)

  1. dessert

Estonian

Noun

dessert (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. dessert

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.sɛʁ/
  • (file)

Noun

dessert m (plural desserts)

  1. dessert, pudding

Verb

dessert

  1. third-person singular present indicative of desservir

Further reading

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French dessert

Noun

dessert m (definite singular desserten, indefinite plural desserter, definite plural dessertene)

  1. dessert

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French dessert

Noun

dessert m (definite singular desserten, indefinite plural dessertar, definite plural dessertane)

  1. dessert

References


Romansch

Noun

dessert m (plural desserts)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) dessert

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West Frisian

Noun

dessert n (plural desserts, diminutive dessertsje)

  1. dessert

Further reading

  • dessert”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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