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Added 9 October 2026

dish

/dɪʃ/ noun

In Latin: patella, lanx, catīnus Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about dish at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
The contents of such a vessel.
a dish of stew
A specific type of prepared food.
a vegetable dish

verb

To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
To insult, speak ill of.

Origin

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 (dăská), 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, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”).

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