Translation
menu, bill of fare; menu on a screen
Word origin
From French menu, meaning small or detailed, from Latin minutus. A menu was a small itemised list long before it had anything to do with food, which is why English minute and minuscule are its relatives.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- minutus
- English cognates
- menu, minute, minuscule
Examples
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The waiter gave us the menu.
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On the menu I found only two hot dishes.
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The program's menu is at the top of the screen.
Two senses, both current. In a restaurant the is the list of dishes; on a screen it is the list you open and click, and Esperanto computing vocabulary uses the word without apology or a hyphen.
The etymology explains why one word carries both. Menu in French means small or itemised, from Latin minutus, so a menu is a detailed little list before it is a card in a restaurant. Software borrowed the metaphor from the dining room, and Esperanto borrowed the whole arrangement.
Watch the register: is the printed or displayed list, while what you actually eat is a or a manĝo. Kuirarto kaj manĝo has the rest of the vocabulary you need to order from one.
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