digestif

digestif

See also: Digestif

English

WOTD – 20 April 2016

Grappa is most often taken as a digestif

Etymology

Borrowed from French digestif. Doublet of digestive.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /daɪˈdʒɛstɪf/, /ˌdiːʒɛsˈtiːf/

  • Audio (UK)

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• Hyphenation: di‧ges‧tif

Noun

digestif (plural digestifs)

1. An alcoholic beverage consumed after eating, so called because it is presumed to aid digestion.

   Antonym: apéritif

Translations

beverage

Czech: digestiv (cs) m Finnish: digestiivi (fi), (with coffee) avec (fi) French: digestif (fr) m German: Digestif (de) Russian: дижести́в (ru) m (dižestív) Turkish: dijestif

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin dīgestīvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ʒɛs.tif/

• Audio

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Adjective

digestif (feminine digestive, masculine plural digestifs, feminine plural digestives)

1. digestive

Derived terms

• tube digestif

Noun

digestif m (plural digestifs)

1. a digestive
2. a digestif

Antonyms

• apéritif

Further reading

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

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Old French

Etymology

First known attestation circa 1265, borrowed from Late Latin dīgestīvus.

Noun

digestif m (oblique plural digestis, nominative singular digestis, nominative plural digestif)

1. a digestive (substance that aids digestion)

Adjective

digestif m (oblique and nominative feminine singular digestive)

1. digestive (that aids digestion)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (digestif, supplement)
• digestif on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub