Etymology

restaurateur

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Today it means: The owner of a restaurant. Full definition →

French restaurateur ← Old French restorer ← Latin restaurāre
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*sth₂u-ro-
  5. Proto-Italic*stauros
  6. Latin*staurō
  7. Latinrestaurāre
  8. Old Frenchrestorer
  9. Frenchrestaurer
  10. Frenchrestaurateur
  11. English todayrestaurateur

Borrowed from French restaurateur.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.