English
Etymology
Via (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Middle English from (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Late Latin refectorium , from (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Latin reficere .
Pronunciation
Noun
refectory (plural refectories )
A dining -hall , especially in an institution such as a college or monastery .
1973 , Thomas Pynchon , Gravity's Rainbow :With a clattering of chairs, upended shell cases, benches, and ottomans, Pirate's mob gather at the shores of the great refectory table, a southern island well across a tropic or two from chill Croydon.
Translations
dining-hall
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: refectori m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 食堂 (zh) ( shítáng ) , 餐廳 / 餐厅 (zh) ( cāntīng ) , 餐厅 (zh) ( cāntīng )
Danish: refektorium (da) n
Dutch: refter (nl) m , eetzaal (nl) m , refectorium (nl) n
Finnish: ruokala (fi) , ruokasali (fi) ; ( monastery ) refektorio (fi)
French: réfectoire (fr) m
German: Refektorium (de) n , Speisesaal (de) m , Mensa (de) f , Remter (de) m
Greek: τραπεζαρία (el) f ( trapezaría ) , τράπεζα (el) f ( trápeza )
Irish: proinnteach m
Italian: refettorio (it) m , mensa (it) f
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Japanese: 食堂 (ja) ( しょくどう, shokudō )
Korean: 구내식당 ( gunaesikdang ) , 식당 (ko) ( sikdang )
Latin: cenatio f , refectōrium n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: refektorium n
Nynorsk: refektorium n
Polish: refektarz (pl) m
Portuguese: refeitório (pt) m
Russian: тра́пезная (ru) f ( trápeznaja ) (monastery) , столо́вая (ru) f ( stolóvaja ) (college)
Spanish: refectorio (es) m
Swedish: refektorium (sv) n