Dinner

Morpheme

Dinner

Type

free base

Denotation

main meal

Etymology

Middle English dyner; Old French disner; Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō, jēiūnō, from Latin ieiūnus, jeiūnus

Evidence

bedinner, dinner, dinnered, dinnerette, dinnering, dinnerless, dinnerlike, dinnerly, dinnermate, dinners, dinnertime, dinnertini, dinnerwards, dinnerware, dinnerwear, dinnery, postdinner, predinner

See Also

Dine, dis-, Jejune, Diepn