DictionaryRoot: rôtir
French
rôtir
to roast
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noun / adjective
rotisserie
roh-TIS-uh-ree/rəʊˈtɪsəri/
Equipment that turns food on a spit during cooking.
Etymology
The roasting verb rôtir underlies a name originally used for a shop or restaurant selling roasted food. The name later shifted from the place to the apparatus that roasts on a spit.