different between delicacy vs ortolan

English

Etymology

From Middle English delicacie, from Middle English delicat, from Latin delicatus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?l?k?si/

Noun

delicacy (countable and uncountable, plural delicacies)

1. The quality of being delicate.
2. Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.

3. Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
4. Frailty of health or fitness.
5. Refinement in taste or discrimination.
6. Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.

Related terms

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle French hortolan (“gardener”), from Latin hortul?nus (“gardener”). Doublet of hortulan.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.t?l.?n/, /???.t?l.æn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.t?.læn/, /???.t?.l?n/

Noun

ortolan (plural ortolans)

1. A small European migratory bunting (Emberiza hortulana), once eaten whole as a delicacy.
   • 2003, Stewart Lee Allen, In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food, page 73

     […] the last flavor Mitterand wished to savor belonged to the flesh of the endangered ortolan, a songbird the size of a human toe that is a crime to buy or hunt, and is certainly illegal to eat. Mitterand devoured it in the traditional manner, first covering his head with an embroidered cloth, then inserting the entire bird into his mouth. […] Only its head should dangle out from between your lips. Bite off the head and discard.

2. (US) Any of various similar birds, especially the bobolink, sora, or snow bunting.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ortolan.

Hypernyms

• (a small bird eaten as a delicacy): bird, delicacy

Translations

French

Etymology

From occitan, from Latin hortul?nus (“gardener”). Cognate with dialectal French hortelain ("gardener").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t?.l??/

Noun

ortolan m (plural ortolans)

1. ortolan (small bird)

Related terms

• horticulture

Further reading

• “ortolan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From French ortolan, from Middle French hortolan, from Latin hortul?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?t?.lan/

Noun

ortolan m anim

1. ortolan (small bird eaten as a delicacy)

Declension

Further reading

• ortolan in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ortolan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French ortolan.

Noun

ortolan m (plural ortolani)

1. ortolan

Declension