dessert

• desert (obsolete)

Borrowed from Middle French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”.

Note: It was erroneously suggested (e.g. in "Glucose syrups: Technology and Applications" (Peter Hull, 2010)) that the word is derived from the name of Benjamin Delessert, the inventor of beet sugar. However, the term predates him by at least a century.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈzɜːt/
• (US) enPR: dĭ-zûrt, IPA^(key): /dɪˈzɝt/

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• Homophone: desert (noun sense “that which is deserved”, verb)
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

dessert (countable and uncountable, plural desserts)

1. The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc.

   I ordered hummus for a starter, a steak as the main course, and chocolate cake for dessert.

   Can I see the dessert menu, please?

2. A sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal.

   Trifle is a favourite dessert of the English, but rivalled by pavlova in Australia and New Zealand.

• (sweet final course of a meal): afters (UK informal), pudding (UK), sweet (UK)

• → Japanese: デザート (dezāto)

• deserts, tressed

From French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”).

dessert c (singular definite desserten, plural indefinite desserter)

1. dessert

• “dessert” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”.

• IPA^(key): /dɛˈsɛr/, /dɛˈsɛrt/

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• Hyphenation: des‧sert
• Rhymes: -ɛr, -ɛrt

dessert n (plural desserten or desserts, diminutive dessertje n)

1. a dessert

   Synonyms: nagerecht, naspijs, toespijs, toetje

• dessertkaart

• Afrikaans: dessert

German Dessert.

dessert (genitive desserdi, partitive desserti)

1. dessert

Declension of dessert (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		dessert	desserdid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	desserdi
genitive			dessertide
partitive		desserti	desserte dessertisid
illative		desserti desserdisse	dessertidesse desserdesse
inessive		desserdis	dessertides desserdes
elative		desserdist	dessertidest desserdest
allative		desserdile	dessertidele desserdele
adessive		desserdil	dessertidel desserdel
ablative		desserdilt	dessertidelt desserdelt
translative		desserdiks	dessertideks desserdeks
terminative		desserdini	dessertideni
essive		desserdina	dessertidena
abessive		desserdita	dessertideta
comitative		desserdiga	dessertidega

• magustoit

• “dessert”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• dessert in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Inherited from Middle French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) +‎ servir (“serve”).

• IPA^(key): /de.sɛʁ/

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dessert m (plural desserts)

1. dessert, pudding

• cuillère à dessert

dessert

1. third-person singular present indicative of desservir

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

• déserts

From French dessert.

dessert m (definite singular desserten, indefinite plural desserter, definite plural dessertene)

1. dessert

• “dessert” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From French dessert.

dessert m (definite singular desserten, indefinite plural dessertar, definite plural dessertane)

1. dessert

• “dessert” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

dessert m (plural desserts)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) dessert

• (Sutsilvan) dultsch

Borrowed from French dessert.

dessert c

1. (more fancy) dessert

   Synonym: efterrätt

• dessertost
• dessertsked
• desserttallrik
• dessertvin

• dessert in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• dessert in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

dessert n (plural desserts, diminutive dessertsje)

1. dessert

• “dessert”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011