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menu的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [ˈmenju:, ˈmeinju:]
KK音标发音： [ˈmɛnju, ˈmenju]

menu的词性：
n.（名词）

1. A list of the dishes to be served or available for a meal.
菜单：用餐时列有供应菜菜名的单子

2. The dishes served or available at a meal.
菜肴：用餐时所供应或可点要的饭菜

3. Computer Science A list, displayed on a monitor, of options available to a computer user.
【计算机科学】 菜单，功能选择单：显示在屏幕上供计算机用户使用的选择单

4. A similar list of options:
与此类似的选择单：

a menu of professional opportunities.
就业机会单

menu的词源：

5. French [small, minute, menu]
法语 [小的，极小的，微小的]

6. from Old French menut [small]
源自 古法语 menut [小的]

7. from Latin min^?tus [past participle of] minuere [to diminish] * see mei- ²
源自 拉丁语 min^?tus [] minuere的过去分词 [减少] *参见 mei- ²

menu的注释：

8. An enormous menu might be considered an oxymoron if one were to restrict the word etymologically. Menu can be traced back to the Latin word min^?tus, meaning “small in size, amount, or degree” and also “possessing or involving minute knowledge.” Latin min^?tus became Old French menut and Modern French menu, “small, fine, trifling, minute.” The French adjective came to be used as a noun with the sense of “detail, details collectively,” and “detailed list.” As such, it was used in the phrase menu de repas, “list of items of a meal,” which was shortened to menu. This word was borrowed into English, being first recorded in 1837. The French word had been borrowed before, perhaps only briefly, as a shortening of the French phrase menu peuple, “the common people.” This usage, however, is recorded in only one text, in 1658.
“一个庞大的菜单”这一说法可能会被看成是一种矛盾的修辞法，如果人们从语源学角度对这个词进行限制的话。Menu 这个词的词源可上溯到拉丁词 minutus， 意为“尺寸、数量或程度小的”，或者“具备或涉及到精细知识的。”这个拉丁词minutus 而后又成为古法语单词 menut 和现代法语单词 menu， 意为“小的、精巧的、琐碎的、详细的。” 这个法语形容词逐渐被用作名词，意为“细节、诸多细节”及“详细的名单”。就这样，它被用于词组menu de repas， 意为“一张菜肴明细单”， 后来这个词组又被简略为menu。 这个简略词被引入英语中，最早出现于1837年。这个法语单词以前也曾被英语借用过，但也许只用了很短一段时间，而且是作为意为“普通民众”的法语词组menu peuple 的简略词。 然而这一用法仅在1658年的一篇文章中出现过