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The French started using "menu" as a list of foods available at a restaurant. It has also meant a list of details (small things) and is related to Latin "minitus," which is also related to English "diminish."
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∙ 11y agoThe origin of the word in Latin as Minuere, meaning a detailed list. The Latin word was adopted into French as 'a list of what is served (at a meal). It then came to England, as menu, in the mid 1600's
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∙ 12y agoit comes from French, which took it from Latin. It came into English in the 17th Century.
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∙ 13y agoFrom 1837, from the French menu de repas, 'list of food being served'
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∙ 15y agofrom the latin word minutus
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