cafeteria
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish cafetería (“coffeehouse”), from cafetera (“coffee maker”), from French cafetière, from café, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of cafetière.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkafəˈtɪəɹi.ə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkæfəˈtɪ(ə)ɹi.ə/
- Rhymes: -ɪɹiə, -ɪəɹiə
Noun
[edit]cafeteria (plural cafeterias)
- (chiefly US, Canada) A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.
- (chiefly US, Canada) A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]restaurant
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dining area
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cafeteria f (plural cafeteries)
Further reading
[edit]- “cafeteria”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cafeteria
- Alternative form of kafeteria.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of cafeteria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | cafeteria | cafeteriat | |
genitive | cafeterian | cafeterioiden cafeterioitten | |
partitive | cafeteriaa | cafeterioita | |
illative | cafeteriaan | cafeterioihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | cafeteria | cafeteriat | |
accusative | nom. | cafeteria | cafeteriat |
gen. | cafeterian | ||
genitive | cafeterian | cafeterioiden cafeterioitten cafeteriain rare | |
partitive | cafeteriaa | cafeterioita | |
inessive | cafeteriassa | cafeterioissa | |
elative | cafeteriasta | cafeterioista | |
illative | cafeteriaan | cafeterioihin | |
adessive | cafeterialla | cafeterioilla | |
ablative | cafeterialta | cafeterioilta | |
allative | cafeterialle | cafeterioille | |
essive | cafeteriana | cafeterioina | |
translative | cafeteriaksi | cafeterioiksi | |
abessive | cafeteriatta | cafeterioitta | |
instructive | — | cafeterioin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “cafeteria”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish cafetería.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ca‧fe‧te‧ri‧a
Noun
[edit]cafeteria f (plural cafeterias)
- cafeteria (type of restaurant)
Related terms
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]cafeteria c
Declension
[edit]Declension of cafeteria | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | cafeteria | cafeterian | cafeterior | cafeteriorna |
Genitive | cafeterias | cafeterians | cafeteriors | cafeteriornas |
Alternative forms
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- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English doublets
- English terms derived from the Arabic root ق ه ي
- English 5-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɪɹiə
- Rhymes:English/ɪɹiə/5 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɪəɹiə
- Rhymes:English/ɪəɹiə/5 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- American English
- Canadian English
- en:Restaurants
- en:Rooms
- Catalan terms suffixed with -ia
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Catalan/ia
- Rhymes:Catalan/ia/5 syllables
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- ca:Restaurants
- Finnish 5-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms spelled with C
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
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