cafetière

See also: cafetiere

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cafetière.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkæf.ə.tiˈɛəɹ/, /ˌkæf.əˈtjɛəɹ/

Noun

cafetière (plural cafetières)

1. A cylindrical glass or metal jug, fitted with a filter on a rod, used to make coffee.

Synonyms

• French press
• press pot
• coffee plunger

Translations

cylindrical glass jug used to make coffee

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咖啡濾壓壺 / 咖啡滤压壶 (kāfēi lǜyāhú)

• Finnish: pressopannu (fi)
• French: cafetière à piston (fr) f
• German: Kaffeepresse f, Pressstempelkanne (de) f
• Icelandic: stimpilkanna f, pressukanna f
• Malay: teko penapis kopi
• Persian: فرنچ پرس (ferenč peres)
• Polish: zaparzacz

Anagrams

• cafeterie

French

Etymology

From café +‎ -t- +‎ -ière. Doublet of cafétéria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.fə.tjɛʁ/, /kaf.tjɛʁ/
• Rhymes: -ɛʁ

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Noun

cafetière f (plural cafetières)

1. coffee pot
2. female equivalent of cafetier: a coffeewoman
3. (slang) head

Derived terms

• cafetière à piston

Descendants

• → English: cafetière
• → Greek: καφετιέρα (kafetiéra)
• → Italian: caffettiera
• → Romanian: cafetieră
• → Sudanese Arabic: كفتيرة (kafatēra)

Further reading

• “cafetière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012