fondue

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue (“melted”), from fondre (“to melt”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɒnduː/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɑnˈdu/

fondue (countable and uncountable, plural fondues)

1. A dish made of melted cheese, or chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped.

   a Swiss fondue

• fondue fork

fondue (third-person singular simple present fondues, present participle fonduing or fondueing, simple past and past participle fondued)

1. To prepare or serve as a fondue.

• fondue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• fondant
• fondu

• founde

• IPA^(key): /ˈfondyː/, [ˈfo̞ndyː]
• Rhymes: -ondyː

fondue

1. alternative form of fondyy

or

• “fondue”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

From fondre.

• IPA^(key): /fɔ̃.dy/

• Audio:

  (file)

fondue

1. feminine singular of fondu

fondue f (plural fondues)

1. fondue

• → English: fondue
• → Polish: fondue
• → Portuguese: fondue
• → Romanian: fondue
• → Spanish: fondue
• → Turkish: fondü

• “fondue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

fondue

1. feminine singular of fondu

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue.

• IPA^(key): [fɔ̃ˈdi]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Syllabification: fon‧due

fondue n (indeclinable)

1. fondue (Swiss melted cheese and wine dish served in a communal pot (caquelon or fondue pot) over a portable stove (réchaud) heated with a candle or spirit lamp, and eaten by dipping bread and sometimes vegetables into the cheese using long-stemmed forks)

• fondue in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• fondue in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue.^[1][2]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fõˈdy/

fondue m or f (plural fondues)

1. fondue (dish of molten cheese)

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue.

fondue f (plural fondue)

1. fondue (dish)

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue.

• IPA^(key): /fonˈdu/ [fõn̪ˈd̪u]
• Rhymes: -u

fondue f (plural fondues)

1. fondue (dish)

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “fondue”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue.

• IPA^(key): /fɔnˈdyː/
• Hyphenation: fon‧due
• Rhymes: -yː

fondue c

1. fondue

• fondue in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fondue in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)