dish

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A type of food that is prepared in a particular way.

   Pasta is my favourite dish.

2. 2
   noun

   A flat or shallow container used for holding or serving food.

   She placed the salad in a large dish.

3. 3
   noun

   The plates, bowls, and cutlery that need to be washed after a meal.

   It's your turn to wash the dishes.

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Simplified etymology

Dish derives ultimately from Latin discus and is related to disc and desk; corresponding Dutch and German forms mean “table.” In English, dishes remained containers until the 20th century, when the word was extended to dish-shaped aerials and later satellite dishes. The senses “a good-looking person” and “to reveal scandal or gossip” also became established in the early 20th century.

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *dъska, whence Bulgarian дъска́ (dǎská), Polish deska, Russian доска́ (doská)), Russian чан (čan)) from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos. Cognates Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish disk (“dish; counter”), Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”). Co…

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