Delicatessen is a German loanword[1] which first appeared in English in 1889[2] and is the plural of Delikatesse. In German it was originally a French loanword, délicatesse, meaning "delicious things (to eat)". Its root word is the Latin adjective delicatus, meaning "giving pleasure, delightful, pleasing".[3] The first Americanized short version of this word, deli, came into existence c. 1954.[4]