different between sommelier vs connoisseur

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sommelier (“originally, a person in charge of the beasts of burden carrying wine”), from somme (“pack”) +? -ier (suffix forming the names of jobs). somme is from Vulgar Latin *salma, from Latin sagma (“packsaddle”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?m?m?li.?/, /?s??m?l?je?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s??m?l?je?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Hyphenation: som?mel?i?er

Noun

sommelier (plural sommeliers)

1. The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.

Synonyms

• sommeliere, sommelière (“female sommelier”)
• wine server
• wine steward, wine stewardess
• wine waiter, wine waitress

Translations

Verb

sommelier (third-person singular simple present sommeliers, present participle sommeliering, simple past and past participle sommeliered)

1. (rare) To act as a sommelier.

Further reading

• sommelier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

somme +? -ier; ultimately from bête de somme; somme is from Vulgar Latin *salma, from Latin sagma (“packsaddle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.m?.lje/

Noun

sommelier m (plural sommeliers, feminine sommelière)

1. sommelier, wine steward (a person who is in charge of the wine cellar in a restaurant)
2. (estate house) the person in charge of bread, linens, crockery, and liquor; the chief of table setting
3. (obsolete) the person in charge of the wine convoy, its beasts of burden, and its protection

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• someliê (rare)

Etymology

From French sommelier

Noun

sommelier m, f (plural sommeliers)

1. sommelier (wine steward)

   Synonym: escanção

Spanish

Etymology

From French sommelier.

Noun

sommelier m (plural sommelieres)

1. sommelier

Swedish

Noun

sommelier c

1. a sommelier

Declension

Synonyms

• vinkypare

See also

• somalier

English

Alternative forms

• connaisseur

Etymology

Around 1705–1715, from French connoisseur, from the verb connoître (obsolete pre-1835 spelling of connaître (“to know”)).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?n??s?/, /?k?n??s??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?n??s??/, /?k?n??s??/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?)

Noun

connoisseur (plural connoisseurs)

1. A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste...[1]

Synonyms

• cognoscente

Derived terms

Related terms

• connoisseuse

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.n?.sœ?/

Noun

connoisseur m (plural connoisseurs)

1. Obsolete spelling of connaisseur