caffe

See also: caffé, and caffè

English

Noun

caffe

1. Alternative spelling of caffè (“Italian café”).
   • 1997 (originally 1991), Madelon Sprengnether, Calvin William Truesdale, The house on Via Gombito: writing by American women abroad, New Rivers Press, page 363:

     Please use the umbrella stand in caffes.

   • 1999, Gloria Nardini, Che Bella Figura!: The Power of Performance in an Italian Ladies’ Club in Chicago, State University of New York Press, page 67:

     While they, too, share the camaraderie of life in the caffe and the piazza, […]

   • After the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) in 2013, Robert Elsie, Bejtullah D. Destani, Rudina Jasini, The Cham Albanians of Greece: A Documentary History, I.B. Tauris & Co., page 284:

     Unfortunately, the common speech of Epirus is somewhat beyond me, but on board ship, in caffes, and wherever it is possible to overhear the talk of the people, […]

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaf.fe/

Noun

caffe (plural caffes)

1. coffee

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Italian

Adjective

caffe f pl

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective caffo.

Noun

caffe f pl

1. feminine plural of caffo (“first one; most important one; foremost one”)

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Middle English

Noun

caffe

1. Alternative form of chaf