sommelier

Meaning

Noun

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.

Verb

To act as a sommelier.

Synonyms

wine waiter

wine steward

Translations

sommelier

Sommelier

sommelier

sumiller

sommelier

sommelier

wijnkelner

Weinkellner

camarero de vinos

maitre de vinos

السّاقي

somelier

Weinkellnerin

οινοχόος

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌsɒmˈmɛli.ə/

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 *sauma, from Latin sagma (“packsaddle”).