For those out there who own a restaurant, you’d think that you’d be referred to as a restauranter or maybe it’s spelt restauranteur right? Well according to the dictionary, you’d be wrong.
An owner of a restaurant is know as a:
[Why is there no ‘N’ in restaurateur?
Apparently it’s because:
Restaurateur is the noun created from the verb restaurer by replacing the -er ending of the verb with the -ateur ending for for a man (its female equivalent, restauratrice, only appeared in 1767) who carries out the action. Hence, no n. At first, he was an artisan who restored or repaired objects. In the seventeenth century, he was an assistant who set broken bones for a surgeon. In the 1770s he became a man skilled in creating this special soup called a restaurant. [Eating in translation via Serious Eats]
The English language can be quite confusing sometimes!
Alexis Ng, 2 years ago
it can be both confusing and interesting as well! my friend took etymology as a subject before and when she told me bout it i was like wow! so thats how those words came about!
William, 2 years ago
Yeah it sounds like some of the words were made up huh?
Alexis Ng, 2 years ago
yes indeed! its like jigsaw puzzle , where you put pieces of it together~