Where does “appetizer” come from?
Appetizer comes from English appetize, from Chinese 兒, Old French -er, Latin -are, Latin -are, Latin -arius, Latin -us, and Proto-Italic -os.
appetizer (English): A small, light, and usually savory first course...
Definitions
- A small, light, and usually savory first course...
Ancestry of “appetizer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | appetize | To whet the appetite |
| 2 | English | appetizing | That appeals to, or stimulates the appetite;... |
| 3 | French | appétissant | appetizing |
| 4 | French | appétit | appetite |
| 5 | Middle French | appetit | appetite; appetite; want; desire; longing |
| 6 | Old French | apetit | appetite |
| 7 | Latin | appetitus | an attack, assault; passionate desire or longing;... |
| 8 | Latin | appetō | to strive for, reach after (something), try to get |
| 9 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |