déjeuner

== English == === Alternative forms === déjeûner, dejeuner === Etymology === Borrowed from French déjeuner. === Pronunciation === === Noun === déjeuner (countable and uncountable, plural déjeuners) The French midday meal. === Verb === déjeuner (third-person singular simple present déjeuners, present participle déjeunering, simple past and past participle déjeunered) (intransitive, rare) To have déjeuner. === References === “déjeuner, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present. “déjeuner, n.”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “déjeuner | déjeuné, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. == French == === Alternative forms === déjeûner (dated) déjeusner (archaic) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /de.ʒœ.ne/, /de.ʒø.ne/, (colloquial) /deʒ.ne/ ~ /dɛʒ.ne/ Homophones: déjeunai, déjeuné, déjeunée, déjeunées, déjeunés, déjeuners, déjeunez === Etymology 1 === From dé- +‎ jeûner (“un fast (to break fast)”) or from a Vulgar Latin *disieiūnāre, from Late Latin ieiūnāre, from Latin ieiūnus. Compare Catalan dejunar, Spanish desayunar, Italian digiunare, Occitan dejunar, Portuguese desjejuar. Doublet of dîner from which English dine descended. ==== Verb ==== déjeuner (formal) to lunch, to eat lunch, to have lunch (outside of France) to have breakfast ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Related terms ===== dîner jeûner jeûne ===== Descendants ===== → English: déjeuner === Etymology 2 === Nominalization of the above verb. ==== Noun ==== déjeuner m (plural déjeuners) (France, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Algeria, Tunisia, New Caledonia, Réunion, Morocco, West Africa) lunch, luncheon Synonyms: dîner m (Belgium, Cajun, Switzerland, and Canada), lunch m, grand déjeuner m (outside of France, occasionally in France) breakfast ===== Derived terms ===== déjeuner à la fourchette petit déjeuner (“breakfast”) ===== Descendants ===== → English: déjeuner → Romanian: dejun → Scots: disjune === Further reading === “déjeuner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 “déjeuner”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse “déjeuner” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.