lunch – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to lunch
Participle: lunched
Gerund: lunching

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	lunch
we	Let's lunch
you	lunch

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

eat a meal

dinner, eat, supper, tea

eat

dine, sup, ingest, feast

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. modern sense of "mid-day repast" is 1829, shortened form of luncheon. The verb meaning "to take to lunch" is attested from 1823.
2. Recorded since 1580 in the sense “piece, hunk”. The word luncheon with the same meaning is presumably an extension on the pattern of puncheon (“cask”) and truncheon (“cudgel”). But earliest found forms of luncheon include lunshin and lunching, which are equivalent to lunch + -ing, with the suffix -ing possibly later modified to imitate a French origin.
3. In contrast, the more common sense “light meal” is first attested for luncheon in 1652 and for lunch in 1829, so in this sense the latter is probably a shortening of the former.
4. Lunch is possibly a derivative of lump (as hunch is from hump. See hunch for more), or represents an alteration of nuncheon, from Middle English nonechenche (“light midday meal”) (see nuncheon) and altered by northern English dialect lunch (“hunk of bread or cheese”) (1590), which perhaps is from lump or from Spanish lonja (“a slice”, literally “loin”).

Verbs referencing "lunch"

Dutch lunchen, Norwegian lunsje.

Sample Sentences