digestif
See also: Digestif
English
WOTD – 20 April 2016
Etymology
Borrowed from French digestif. Doublet of digestive.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /daɪˈdʒɛstɪf/, /ˌdiːʒɛsˈtiːf/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Hyphenation: di‧ges‧tif
Noun
digestif (plural digestifs)
- An alcoholic beverage consumed after eating, so called because it is presumed to aid digestion.
- Antonym: apéritif
- 2007 June 27, Rob Willey, “A Bit of History, Reborn in a Glass”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 10 June 2021:
- At Vessel, in Seattle, the bar manager, Jamie Boudreau, starts his cherry bitters by combining separate bourbon- and rye-based infusions with a touch of honey-flavored vodka and the Italian digestif amaro.
Translations
beverage
French
Etymology
From Old French digestif.
Pronunciation
Adjective
digestif (feminine digestive, masculine plural digestifs, feminine plural digestives)
Derived terms
Noun
digestif m (plural digestifs)
Antonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “digestif”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch digestief, from French digestif, from Late Latin dīgestīvus.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /diˈɡɛstif/ [diˈɡɛs.t̪ɪf]
- Rhymes: -ɛstif
- Syllabification: di‧ges‧tif
Adjective
digestif (comparative lebih digestif, superlative paling digestif)
Further reading
- “digestif”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Old French
Etymology
First known attestation circa 1265, borrowed from Late Latin dīgestīvus.
Noun
digestif oblique singular, m (oblique plural digestis, nominative singular digestis, nominative plural digestif)
- a digestive (substance that aids digestion)
Adjective
digestif m (oblique and nominative feminine singular digestive)
- digestive (that aids digestion)
Descendants
- French: digestif
References
- Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “digestif”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
- digestif on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub