Word Origin Summary

Hors-d'œuvre is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• ออเดิร์ฟ

  Thai · borrowed from

• オードブル

  Japanese · borrowed from

• 오르되브르

  Korean · borrowed from

• hors d'oeuvre

  English · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root