Where does “restaurateur” come from?
Restaurateur comes from French restaurateur, from French restaurer meaning to restore, from Latin restaurō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European wer- meaning to turn or bend.
restaurateur (English): The owner of a restaurant
Definitions
- The owner of a restaurant
Ancestry of “restaurateur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | restaurateur | restorer; restaurateur, restaurant owner |
| 2 | French | -ateur | -ator |
| 3 | Latin | -ator | -ator, -er; second-person singular future passive... |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
Words derived from “restaurateur”