taberna

English

Etymology 1

From Latin taberna. Doublet of tavern and taverna.

Noun

taberna (plural tabernas)

1. (Ancient Rome) A type of shop or stall in Ancient Rome.

Etymology 2

From Spanish taberna, from Latin taberna. Doublet of tavern and taverna.

Noun

taberna (plural tabernas)

1. A tavern in Spain.

   Hypernyms: tavern, restaurant < establishment

   Coordinate terms: taverna, osteria, trattoria, bistro

   • 1994 April 3, Penelope Casas, “Madrid's Timeless Taverns”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     When King Philip II made Madrid his capital in 1561, the taberna was already well established. The city's streets teemed with people—from lowlife and riffraff to cloaked royalty and aristocrats seeking anonymity in the crowds—and in the finest democratic tradition, all took part in the life of the tabernas.

Anagrams

• Braaten, ant bear, ant-bear, antbear

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish taberna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taberna/ [t̪a.β̞er.na]
• Rhymes: -erna, -a
• Hyphenation: ta‧ber‧na

Noun

taberna inan

1. pub, tavern, inn

Declension

Declension of taberna (inan a-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	taberna	taberna	tabernak	tabernok
ergative	tabernak	tabernak	tabernek	tabernok
dative	tabernari	tabernari	tabernei	tabernoi
genitive	tabernaren	tabernaren	tabernen	tabernon
comitative	tabernarekin	tabernarekin	tabernekin	tabernokin
causative	tabernarengatik	tabernarengatik	tabernengatik	tabernongatik
benefactive	tabernarentzat	tabernarentzat	tabernentzat	tabernontzat
instrumental	tabernaz	tabernaz	tabernez	tabernotaz
inessive	tabernatan	tabernan	tabernetan	tabernotan
locative	tabernatako	tabernako	tabernetako	tabernotako
allative	tabernatara	tabernara	tabernetara	tabernotara
terminative	tabernataraino	tabernaraino	tabernetaraino	tabernotaraino
directive	tabernatarantz	tabernarantz	tabernetarantz	tabernotarantz
destinative	tabernatarako	tabernarako	tabernetarako	tabernotarako
ablative	tabernatatik	tabernatik	tabernetatik	tabernotatik
partitive	tabernarik	—	—	—
prolative	tabernatzat	—	—	—

Further reading

• “taberna”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “taberna”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese taverna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin taberna (“inn, tavern, shop”), by dissimilation from *traberna, from trabs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈbɛɾna/ [t̪aˈβ̞ɛɾ.nɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɾna
• Hyphenation: ta‧ber‧na

Noun

taberna f (plural tabernas)

1. tavern

   Polas noites está sempre na taberna tomando viño e xogando a partida cos amigos.

   He's always at the pub during the evening, drinking wine and playing cards with his friends.

Derived terms

• taberneiro

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “taverna”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “taberna”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “taberna”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “taberna”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “taberna”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Latin

Etymology

By dissimilation from *traberna, from trabs (“tree trunk, beam”) +‎ -rnus, with original meaning "wooden shed".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [taˈbɛr.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [taˈbɛr.na]

Noun

taberna f (genitive tabernae); first declension

1. shop, store
2. inn
3. tavern, saloon
4. hut, shed

Usage notes

A taberna can be a shop where goods are sold. An officīna is a shop where goods are manufactured. It is possible for a single shop to be both a taberna and an officīna.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	taberna	tabernae
genitive	tabernae	tabernārum
dative	tabernae	tabernīs
accusative	tabernam	tabernās
ablative	tabernā	tabernīs
vocative	taberna	tabernae

Quotations

• 44 BC, Cicero, Philippicae, liber 2, 21:

  ...nisi se ille in scalas tabernae librariae coniecisset...

  ...if he had not thrown himself up the stairs of a bookseller's shop...

• 533, Justinian I, Digesta seu Pandectae, liber 50, 16:183:

  Tabernae appellatio declarat omne utile ad habitandum aedificium... quod tabulis clauditur.

  The name "tabernae" indicates every building used for habitation... which is enclosed by boards.

Derived terms

• contubernālis
• contubernium
• tabernāculārius
• tabernāculum
• tabernārius
• tabernātor
• tabernō
• tabernula

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: taverna (see there for further descendants)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: taverna
  • Old French: taverne (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: tabierna
  • Asturian: tabierna
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: taverna
    • Galician: taberna
    • Portuguese: taberna, taverna
  • Old Spanish: tabierna
• Borrowings:
  • → English: taberna
  • → Esperanto: taverno
  • → Greek: ταβέρνα (tavérna) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Ido: taverno
  • → Old Swedish: taværne
    • Swedish: taverna (as well as from Italian)
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *taβern (see there for further descendants)
  • → Spanish: taberna (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “taberna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “taberna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "taberna", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “taberna”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “taberna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “taberna”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• taverna

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese taverna, from Latin taberna (“inn, tavern, shop”), by dissimilation from *traberna, from trabs.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈbɛʁ.nɐ/ [taˈbɛɦ.nɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈbɛʁ.nɐ/ [taˈbɛɦ.nɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /taˈbɛɾ.nɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /taˈbɛʁ.nɐ/
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /taˈbɛɻ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈbɛʁ.na/ [taˈbɛɦ.na]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈbɛɾ.nɐ/ [tɐˈβɛɾ.nɐ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛʁnɐ, (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɛɾnɐ
• Homophone: (Northern Portugal) taverna
• Hyphenation: ta‧ber‧na

Noun

taberna f (plural tabernas)

1. pub, tavern

Derived terms

• taberneiro

Related terms

• tabernáculo

Further reading

• “taberna”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “taberna”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “taberna”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “taberna”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin taberna (“inn, tavern, shop”), displacing the inherited Old Spanish tabierna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈbeɾna/ [t̪aˈβ̞eɾ.na]
• Rhymes: -eɾna
• Syllabification: ta‧ber‧na

Noun

taberna f (plural tabernas)

1. pub, tavern

Derived terms

• herriko taberna

Descendants

• → Basque: taberna
• → English: taberna
• → Tagalog: taberna

Further reading

• “taberna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish taberna, from Latin taberna.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈbeɾna/ [t̪ɐˈbɛɾ.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -eɾna
• Syllabification: ta‧ber‧na
• Homophone: Taberna

Noun

taberna (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊᜒᜇ᜔ᜈ)

1. pub; tavern

   Synonym: bar