Where does “restaurant” come from?

restaurant (French) comes from Latin restaurans, from Latin restauro, from Latin re-, from Proto-Indo-European wret-, from Proto-Indo-European wert-, from Proto-Indo-European wer- — to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel.

restaurant (French): restaurant; present participle of restaurer

Definitions

  1. restaurant; present participle of restaurer

Ancestry of “restaurant”, step by step

restaurant traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin restaurans

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinrestauransrestoring
2LatinrestauroI restore, rebuild, reestablish, renew
3Latinre-back, backwards; again; prefix added to various...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanwret-—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanwert-to turn, to rotate
6Proto-Indo-Europeanwer-to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel

via French restaurer

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchrestaurerto restore; to dine, to eat
2Old Frenchrestorerto restore
3Latinrēstaurōto restore
4Latinrĕ-back, backwards
5Proto-Italic*wre-re-, more specifically

Words derived from “restaurant”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European wer- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European wert- →Every word from Latin re- →