dessert

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈzɜːt/
• (US) enPR: dĭ-zûrt, IPA^(key): /dɪˈzɝt/

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• Homophone: desert (verb)
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

dessert (countable and uncountable, plural desserts)

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

• (sweet final course of a meal): afters (UK informal), pudding (UK), sweet (UK)

• deserts, tressed

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

dessert c (singular definite desserten, plural indefinite desserter)

1. dessert

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dessert n (plural desserts, diminutive dessertje n)

1. dessert

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

1. dessert

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• magustoit

• IPA^(key): /de.sɛʁ/

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dessert m (plural desserts)

1. dessert, pudding

dessert

1. third-person singular present indicative of desservir

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

• déserts

From French dessert

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

1. dessert

• “dessert” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From French dessert

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

1. dessert

• “dessert” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

dessert m (plural desserts)

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

• (Sutsilvan) dultsch

dessert n (plural desserts, diminutive dessertsje)

1. dessert

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