banquete

See also: banqueté

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), from Lombardic bank, or possibly from an equivalent Germanic root, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈke.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈke.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈke.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈke.tɨ/

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃.ˈkeː.ti/
• Rhymes: (Brazil) -et͡ʃi, (Portugal) -etɨ
• Hyphenation: ban‧que‧te

Noun

banquete m (plural banquetes)

1. banquet, feast

   Synonym: festim

Related terms

• banco
• banqueteador
• banquetear

 

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French banquet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /banˈkete/ [bãŋˈke.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: ban‧que‧te

Noun

banquete m (plural banquetes)

1. banquet

   Synonym: convite

2. catering

   Synonym: cáterin

Derived terms

• banquetear
• banquetero

 

Further reading

• “banquete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014