Did you know that the word “dinner” used to mean
“breakfast”.
The English word “dinner” comes from a French
word “disnar”, which means “breakfast.”
Traditionally, dinner (meaning ‘breakfast’) was the first meal of the
day, eaten around noon. It also happened
to be the biggest meal of the day, with a lighter meal coming later known as supper.
Eventually, more meals started being added to the day with people eating
meals before large noon meal of dinner. Rather
than calling these earlier meals that broke the fast by the word that means
breakfast (dinner), the name “dinner” now stuck as meaning the largest meal of
the day. As time has passed, in most
cultures that use these words to describe their meals, the largest meal of the
day gradually got moved later and later in the day until its meal time was
around the time we used to have supper (which used to be a light meal).
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