gastronomy

English

WOTD – 4 June 2016

An array of food at a Swedish smorgasbord

Etymology

From French gastronomie, from Ancient Greek γαστρονομία (gastronomía), from γαστήρ (gastḗr, “stomach”) + νόμος (nómos, “knowledge, law”); by surface analysis, gastro- (“cooking”) +‎ -nomy (“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ɡæˈstɹɒnəmi/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒnəmi
• Hyphenation: gas‧tro‧no‧my

Noun

gastronomy (usually uncountable, plural gastronomies)

1. The art of preparing and eating good food.
2. The study of the relationship between food and culture.
3. The cooking of a particular area; cuisine.

   The gastronomy of Mexico is world-famous.

Derived terms

• molecular gastronomy
• neurogastronomy

Related terms

• gastronome
• gastro-
• gastronomic

Translations

study of the relationship between food and culture

• Arabic: فَنّ اَلْأَكْل m (fann al-ʔakl)
• Basque: gastronomia (eu)
• Belarusian: гастрано́мія f (hastranómija), кулінарыя f (kulinaryja)
• Bulgarian: гастрономия f (gastronomija), кулинария f (kulinarija)
• Catalan: gastronomia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美食學 / 美食学 (měishíxué), 烹飪法 / 烹饪法 (zh) (pēngrènfǎ), 美食法 (měishífǎ)

• Czech: gastronomie f
• Dutch: gastronomie (nl) f
• Esperanto: gastronomio
• Finnish: gastronomia (fi)
• French: gastronomie (fr) f
• Galician: gastronomía (gl) f
• Georgian: გასტრონომია (gasṭronomia), კულინარია (ḳulinaria)
• German: Gastronomie (de) f
• Hebrew: גַּסְטְרוֹנוֹמְיָה (he) f (gastronomia)
• Hungarian: gasztronómia (hu)
• Ido: gastronomio (io)
• Italian: gastronomia (it) f
• Japanese: ガストロノミー (gasutoronomī), 美食学 (びしょくがく, bishokugaku), 美食術 (びしょくじゅつ, bishokujutsu)
• Latvian: gastronomija f, kulinārija f
• Lithuanian: gastronomija f, kulinarija f
• Polish: gastronomia (pl) f
• Portuguese: gastronomia (pt) f
• Romanian: gastronomie (ro) f
• Russian: гастроно́мия (ru) f (gastronómija), кулинари́я (ru) f (kulinaríja)
• Spanish: gastronomía (es) f
• Swedish: gastronomi (sv) ?
• Turkish: gastronomi (tr)
• Ukrainian: гастроно́мія (uk) f (hastronómija), кулінарія f (kulinarija)
• Vietnamese: ẩm thực (vi), liệu lí học
• Yiddish: גאַסטראָנאָמיע f (gastronomye)

See also

• cooking