英语词汇diner的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	diner
词源	diner n. 1815, "one who dines," agent noun from dine. Meaning "railway car for eating" is 1890, American English; of restaurants built to resemble dining cars (or in some cases actual converted dining cars) from 1935. The Diner's Club credit card system dates from 1952. Entries linking to diner dine v. c. 1300, dinen, "eat the chief meal of the day, take dinner;" also in a general sense "to eat," from Old French disner "to dine, eat, have a meal" (Modern French dîner), originally "take the first meal of the day," from stem of Gallo-Roman desjunare "to break one's fast," from Vulgar Latin disjejunare, from dis- "undo, do the opposite of" (see dis-) + Late Latin jejunare "to fast," from Latin iejunus "fasting, hungry, not partaking of food" (see jejune). Transitive sense of "give a dinner to" is from late 14c. To dine out "take dinner away from home" is by 1758. updated on August 20, 2018
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