délicatesse
See also: delicatesse
French
Etymology
From Middle French delicatesse, equivalent to délicat + -esse, probably modelled on Italian delicatezza.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.li.ka.tɛs/
- Rhymes: -ɛs
Audio: (file)
Noun
délicatesse f (plural délicatesses)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Dutch: delicatesse
- → German: Delikatesse, Delicatesse (obsolete)
- → Czech: delikatesa
- → English: delicatessen, delikatessen (via plural)
- → Spanish: delicatessen, delicatesen
- → Polish: delikates
- → Romanian: delicatesă
- → Norwegian Bokmål: delikatesse
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: delikatesse
- → Romanian: delicatețe
- → Russian: деликате́с (delikatés)
- → Serbo-Croatian: delikatèsa / деликатѐса
- → Swedish: delikatess
- → Ukrainian: делікате́с (delikatés)
- → Yiddish: דעליקאַטעס (delikates)
References
- ^ Etymology and history of “délicatesse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “délicatesse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.