delicatessen

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• /ˌdɛlɪkəˈtɛsən/
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• CMU ARPABET: D EH2 L IH0 K AH0 T EH1 S AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested 1864. From German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), at the time also spelt Delicatesse(n), from French délicatesse, from délicat (“fine”), from Latin delicatus (“alluring”). The sense of store is much more recent, originating in ellipsis from the common attributive use, as in delicatessen shop, delicatessen store, etc.

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: delicatessen — shop selling prepared foods
• Chinese Mandarin: 熟食店 (shúshídiàn) — shop selling prepared foods
• Danish: delikatessebutik — shop selling prepared foods
• Danish: delikatesseforretning — shop selling prepared foods
• Esperanto: bongustaĵejo — shop selling prepared foods
• Esperanto: delicaĵejo — shop selling prepared foods
• Esperanto: delikataĵejo — shop selling prepared foods
• Esperanto: frandaĵvendejo — shop selling prepared foods
• French: traiteur — shop selling prepared foods
• French: épicerie fine — shop selling prepared foods
• German: Feinkostladen — shop selling prepared foods
• German: Delikatessengeschäft — shop selling prepared foods
• German: Delikatessenladen — shop selling prepared foods
• Greek: ντελικατέσεν (ntelikatésen) — shop selling prepared foods
• Hebrew: מַעֲדַנִּיָּה (ma'adaniyá) — shop selling prepared foods
• Italian: gastronomia — shop selling prepared foods
• Japanese: デリカテッセン (derikatessen) — shop selling prepared foods
• Japanese: 総菜屋 (sōzaiya) — shop selling prepared foods
• Japanese: デリカ — shop selling prepared foods
• Māori: toa kai-kīnaki — shop selling prepared foods
• Norwegian Bokmål: delikatessebutikk — shop selling prepared foods
• Norwegian Nynorsk: delikatessebutikk — shop selling prepared foods
• Polish: delikatesy — shop selling prepared foods
• Portuguese: delicatessen — shop selling prepared foods
• Russian: гастроно́м (gastronóm) — shop selling prepared foods
• Russian: деликате́сы (delikatɛ́sy) — shop selling prepared foods
• Serbo-Croatian: посластичара — shop selling prepared foods
• Serbo-Croatian: посластичарница — shop selling prepared foods
• Serbo-Croatian: poslastičara — shop selling prepared foods
• Serbo-Croatian: poslastičarnica — shop selling prepared foods
• Spanish: delicatessen (delicatesen) — shop selling prepared foods
• Spanish: fiambrería — shop selling prepared foods
• Swedish: delikatessbutik — shop selling prepared foods
• Swedish: delikatessaffär — shop selling prepared foods
• Welsh: danteithfa — shop selling prepared foods
• Yiddish: וווּרשטערײַ (vurshteray) — shop selling prepared foods
• Yiddish: דעליקאַטעסן (delikatesn) — shop selling prepared foods
• German: Delikatessen — delicacies
• German: Feinkost — delicacies
• Greek: ντελικατέσεν (ntelikatésen) — delicacies
• Norman: d'licatesses — delicacies
• Spanish: delicatessen (delicatesen) — delicacies
• Yiddish: דעליקאַטעסן (delikatesn) — delicacies