banquet

== English == === Alternative forms === bankette (obsolete) === Etymology === 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. The unetymological /w/ resulted from spelling-pronunciation. === Pronunciation === enPR: băngˈkwĭt; IPA(key): /ˈbæŋkwɪt/ IPA(key): (obsolete) /ˈbæŋkɪt/ === Noun === banquet (plural banquets) A large celebratory meal; a feast. Synonym: reception A ceremonial dinner party for many people. (archaic) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Scottish Gaelic: bangaid (Canadian) ==== Translations ==== === Verb === banquet (third-person singular simple present banquets, present participle banqueting or (uncommon) banquetting, simple past and past participle banqueted or (uncommon) banquetted) (intransitive) To participate in a banquet; to feast. (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. (transitive) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. 1800, Frederick Schiller, The Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman & Rees, Act I, scene i, p. 2,[4] Just in time to banquet The illustrious company assembled there. ==== Derived terms ==== banqueter banqueting ==== Translations ==== === References === == Catalan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central) [bəŋˈkɛt] IPA(key): (Balearic) [bəŋˈkət] IPA(key): (Valencia) [baŋˈket] === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from French banquet. ==== Noun ==== banquet m (plural banquets) banquet (celebratory meal) === Etymology 2 === From banc +‎ -et. ==== Noun ==== banquet m (plural banquets) small bench === Further reading === “banquet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 “banquet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 “banquet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. “banquet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. == French == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɑ̃.kɛ/ === Noun === banquet m (plural banquets) banquet ==== Descendants ==== === Further reading === “banquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012