menu

noun

1. a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare: Ask the waiter for a menu.
2. the dishes served.
3. any list or set of items, activities, etc., from which to choose: What’s on the menu this weekend—golf, tennis, swimming?
4. Digital Technology. a list of options available to a user, as displayed on a screen.

noun

1. a list of dishes served at a meal or that can be ordered in a restaurant
2. a list of options displayed on a visual display unit from which the operator selects an action to be carried out by positioning the cursor or by depressing the appropriate key

n.1837, from French menu de repas “list of what is served at a meal,” from Middle French menu (adj.) “small, detailed” (11c.), from Latin minutus “small,” literally “made smaller,” past participle of minuere “to diminish,” from root of minus “to diminish” (see minus). Computer usage is from 1967, from expanded sense of “any detailed list,” first attested 1889.