delicatessen

Etymology
First attested 1864. From, plural of , at the time also spelt , from , from , from.

The sense of store is much more recent, originating in ellipsis from the common attributive use, as in, , etc.

Noun

 * 1) A shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 熟食店
 * Danish: delikatessebutik, delikatesseforretning
 * Esperanto: bongustaĵejo, delicaĵejo, delikataĵejo, frandaĵvendejo
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ⁧ מַעֲדַנִּיָּה⁩
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 総菜屋,
 * Maori: toa kai-kīnaki
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: delikatessebutikk
 * Nynorsk: delikatessebutikk
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: посластичара, посластичарница
 * Roman: poslastičara,
 * Spanish: delicatessen
 * Swedish: delikatessaffär
 * Welsh: danteithfa
 * Yiddish: וווּרשטערײַ, דעליקאַטעסן

Noun

 * 1) Delicacies; exotic or expensive foods.

Translations

 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Norman: d'licatesses
 * Yiddish: דעליקאַטעסן

Etymology
First attested 1642. Plural of, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) delicacies, fine food

Noun

 * 1)  shop selling prepared foods

Etymology
, from.