banquet

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English[edit]

 Banquet on Wikipedia
State Banquet.—Serving the Peacock.—Facsimile of a woodcut in an edition of Virgil, folio, published at Lyons in 1517.
A Chinese painting of an outdoor banquet, from the era of the Song Dynasty (960–1279).

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English banket, from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), from Lombardic *bank, *panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benċ (“bench”). More at bank, bench.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: băngˈ kwĭt, bănˈ kwĭt; IPA(key): /ˈ bæŋkwɪt/, /ˈ bænkwɪt/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈ bæŋkɪt/[1]
  • Audio (US)(file)

Noun[edit]

banquet (plural banquets)

  1. A large celebratory meal; a feast.
    Synonym: reception
  2. A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
  3. (archaic) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
    • c. 1624–1625 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Vnnaturall Combat. A Tragedie. […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Waterson, […], published 1639, →OCLC, Act III, scene i:
      Wee'll dine in the great roome, but let the muſick / And banquet be prepar'd here.
    • 1874, Saturday Review: Politics, Literature, Science and Art:
      At Inverkeithing the teetotalers objected to this profligate expenditure, so the Provost and magistrates manfully paid for their “cookies” out of their own pockets. At Dunse, instead of a cake and wine banquet, there was “a fruit conversazione,” whatever that may be.

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  • → Scottish Gaelic: bangaid (Canadian)

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Verb[edit]

banquet (third-person singular simple present banquets, present participle banqueting or banquetting, simple past and past participle banqueted or banquetted)

  1. (intransitive) To participate in a banquet; to feast.
  2. (obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
    • 1580, George Cavendish, quoted by John Stow (ed.), The Annales of England, Faithfully collected out of the most autenticall Authors, Records, and other Monuments of Antiquitie, 1600 edition, “Henry the eight.,” p. 907,[3]
      Then was the banquetting chamber in the tilt yard at Greenewich, to the which place these strangers were conducted by the noblest personages in the court, where they did both sup and banquet.
  3. (transitive) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 7.34, page 215.

Catalan[edit]

 Banquet on Catalan Wikipedia

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Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from French banquet.

Noun[edit]

banquet m (plural banquets)

  1. banquet (celebratory meal)

Etymology 2[edit]

From banc +‎ -et.

Noun[edit]

banquet m (plural banquets)

  1. small bench

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French[edit]

 Banquet on French Wikipedia

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), from Lombardic bank (“bench”) / Lombardic panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benc (“bench”). Compare Old French banquet, which only meant "small bench", from the same Proto-Germanic source.

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Noun[edit]

banquet m (plural banquets)

  1. banquet

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