cafeteria
English edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from 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] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, 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)
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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 |