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Sommelier

//ˌsɒmˈmɛli.ə// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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.

    "The sommelier recommended the perfect wine, opened the bottle with panache, and served it into glasses."

  2. 2
    a waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To act as a sommelier. intransitive, rare

    "The final nerve-wracking task involved “sommeliering” throughout a gourmet lunch for judges and wine writers – and answering the tricky questions which were inevitably thrown their way."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

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