waiter
要点給仕人
意味
- (料理店などの)給仕人,ウエーター
- (食物を運ぶ)給仕盆
例文
Waiter, please bring me another glass of beer.
店員さん、もう一杯ビールを持ってきてください。
The waiter put a new tablecloth on the table.
店員さんが、テーブルに新しいテーブルクロスをかけました。
I used to be a waiter at a fancy restaurant.
昔は、高級レストランでウェイターしてたよ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From late 14th century Middle English waiter, wayter (“attendant, watchman”). By surface analysis, wait + -er. Sense of "servant who waits at tables" is from late 15th century, originally in reference to household servants; in reference to inns, eating houses, etc., it is attested from 1660s. Feminine form waitress first recorded 1834. The London Stock Exchange sense harks back to the early days of trading in coffee-shops.