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delicatus
Latin · ancient
"delicate, pleasing"
meaning "delicate" or "pleasing"
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délicatesse
French · 1600s
"a fine delicacy"
came to mean a delicacy or fine food
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Delikatessen
German · 1800s
"fine prepared foods; a shop selling them"
adopted as the plural word for fine prepared foods and the shop selling them
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delicatessen
English · 1800s
"a shop selling prepared foods and delicacies"
adopted through German immigrant communities in the US
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