Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·german ·1880s
Delicatessen
from Delikatessen
- Meaning
- Delicacies (plural of Delikatesse, ultimately from Italian *delicatezza*).
- Source word
- Delikatessen
- Route into English
- German shop-name → American Yiddish-Jewish neighbourhoods → general American food vocabulary; clipped to "deli" by 1950s.
- Arrived
- 1880s
English borrows.
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