buffet · noun1
- Old French · derived frombuffet
- Middle French · derived frombuffet“side table”
- Middle English · inherited frombuffet“stool”
- English todaybuffet
Inherited from Middle English buffet (“stool”), from Middle French buffet (“side table”), from Old French buffet, of unknown origin. The modern pronunciation is remodelled after modern French buffet.
buffet · noun2
- Old French · derived frombuffet
- Middle English · inherited frombuffet“buffet”
- English todaybuffet
From Middle English buffet (“buffet”), from Old French buffet, diminutive of buffe, cognate with Italian buffetto. See buffer, buffoon, and compare German puffen (“to jostle, to hustle”).
buffet · verb3
- Old French · derived frombuffeter
- Middle English · inherited frombuffeten
- English todaybuffet
From Middle English buffeten, from Old French buffeter, from the noun (see above).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.