cafeteria
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(Mid 19th or 20th century) American 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.
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Translations[edit]
restaurant
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dining area
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Catalan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cafeteria f (plural cafeteries)
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 cafeteriainrare | ||
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] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish cafetería.
Pronunciation[edit]
- 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[edit]
Categories:
- 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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- English terms with audio links
- 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 with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Catalan/ia
- Rhymes:Catalan/ia/5 syllables
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- Finnish 5-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms spelled with C
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Spanish
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