condiment

English

Etymology

From late Middle English condiment, from Old French condiment, from Latin condimentum, from condīre (“to preserve, pickle, season”). See also condite and compare recondite.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.dɪ.mənt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.də.mənt/

Noun

condiment (plural condiments)

1. Something used to enhance the flavor of food; for example, salt or pepper.
   • 1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1]:

     Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs – topped with every imaginable condiment – hot mustard, sweet mustard, jalapenos, spaghetti sauce, regular relish, corn relish, maple syrup salsa and the secret sauce of Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.). ("If I told you the recipe," an aide explained, "I'd have to shoot you.")

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:seasoning

Derived terms

• condimental
• condimentless
• non-brewed condiment

 

Translations

something used to enhance flavor

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: تَابِل m (tābil)

  Hijazi Arabic: تَابِل m (tābil)

• Armenian: համեմունք (hy) (hamemunkʻ)
• Basque: gozagarri, ongarri, ongailu
• Belarusian: прыпра́ва f (prypráva)
• Bulgarian: подправка (bg) f (podpravka)
• Catalan: condiment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調料／调料 (zh) (tiáoliào), 調味品／调味品 (zh) (tiáowèipǐn)

• Czech: ochucovadlo n
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: smaakversterker (nl) m, kruid (nl) n, smaakmaker (nl) m
• Esperanto: spicaĵo
• Estonian: maitseaine, ürt, vürts, supiroheline
• Farefare: zẽerɔ
• Finnish: mauste (fi)
• French: condiment (fr) m
• Galician: condimento (gl) m
• Georgian: საკაზმი (saḳazmi)
• German: Würze (de) f, Kondiment n, Würzsauce (de) f
• Greek: καρύκευμα (el) n (karýkevma)

  Ancient: ἄρτυμα n (ártuma)

• Hebrew: תבלין (he) m (tavlyn)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: ételízesítő (hu), fűszer (hu)
• Irish: anlann m, tarsann m, bealaíocht f
• Italian: condimento (it) m
• Japanese: 調味料 (ja) (ちょうみりょう, chōmiryō)
• Kazakh: дәмқосар (dämqosar)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 조미료 (ko) (jomiryo)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: pulmentum n
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: kīnaki, tārau
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цуу (mn) (cuu)

  Mongolian: ᠴᠤᠤ (čuu)

• Persian: چاشنی (fa) (čâšni), ابزار (fa) (abzâr), ادویه (fa) (adviye)
• Polish: przyprawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: condimento (pt) m
• Russian: припра́ва (ru) f (pripráva), специи (ru) f pl (specii)
• Spanish: condimento (es) m
• Swedish: smakförstärkare
• Tagalog: kondimento
• Thai: เครื่องปรุงรส (krʉ̂ʉang-bprung-rót)
• Turkish: çeşni (tr), baharat (tr)
• Ukrainian: припра́ва f (prypráva)
• Vietnamese: gia vị (vi)

Verb

condiment (third-person singular simple present condiments, present participle condimenting, simple past and past participle condimented)

1. (transitive) To season with condiments.
2. (transitive) To pickle.

Further reading

• condiment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin condīmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kun.diˈmen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [kon.diˈment]

Noun

condiment m (plural condiments)

1. condiment

Derived terms

• condimentar

Further reading

• “condiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “condiment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “condiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “condiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin condīmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.di.mɑ̃/

• Audio

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• Audio (CAN)

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Noun

condiment m (plural condiments)

1. condiment

See also

• exhausteur de goût

Further reading

• “condiment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French condiment.

Noun

condiment n (plural condimente)

1. spice

Declension

Declension of condiment

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) condiment	condimentul	(niște) condimente	condimentele
genitive/dative	(unui) condiment	condimentului	(unor) condimente	condimentelor
vocative	condimentule		condimentelor