café

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See also: cafe, CAFE, cafè, and Café

English

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café (“coffee; coffee shop”). Doublet of caffè and coffee.

Pronunciation

Noun

café (plural cafés)

  1. A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises.
  2. (Canada) A small restaurant of any genre.
    • 1982, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Chinese Café / Unchained Melody”:

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Asturian

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈfe/,
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: ca‧fé

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

  1. coffee
  2. a cafe, coffee shop

Catalan

Pronunciation

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Noun

café m (plural cafés)

  1. (Valencia) Alternative spelling of cafè

Danish

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café.

Noun

café c (singular definite caféen, plural indefinite caféer)

  1. café

Declension

Declension of café
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative café caféen caféer caféerne
genitive cafés caféens caféers caféernes

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Dutch

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).

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Noun

café n (plural cafés, diminutive cafeetje n)

  1. café; coffee shop
    Synonym: koffiehuis
  2. pub, bar
    Synonyms: kroeg, biercafé
  3. snackbar
    Synonym: eetcafé

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French

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of caoua.

Pronunciation

Noun

café m (usually uncountable, plural cafés)

  1. coffee (drink)
    Synonyms: caoua, noir, petit noir
    Hypernym: boisson
    Hyponyms: bistouille, café arrosé, café au lait, café-calva, café-chicorée, café chocolaté, café crème, café filtre, café frappé, café-lambig, café turc, cappuccino, décaféiné, expresso, macchiato, ristretto
  2. coffee colour
  3. public house
  4. cafe, coffee shop

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Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: kafe
  • Louisiana Creole: kafe
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Adjective

café (plural cafés)

  1. of the colour of coffee

References

  1. ^ Etymology and history of “cafe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

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Galician

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈfɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: ca‧fé

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

  1. coffee
    O día estaba frío, e despois de xantar os convidados dixeron que non lles sentaría nada mal un café.
    It was a cold day, and after lunch the guests decided to have a coffee.
  2. coffee bean
  3. coffee plant
  4. cafeteria

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French café.

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

  1. (Jersey) coffee (beverage)
  2. (Jersey) café (establishment)

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Polish

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café

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café. Doublet of kawa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈfɛ/
  • Rhymes: -afɛ
  • Syllabification: ca‧fé

Noun

café n (indeclinable)

  1. café, coffee shop (establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises)
    Synonym: kawiarnia

Further reading

  • café in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Classical Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: ca‧fé
  • Audio (Brazil)(file)

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

  1. coffee
    O café é uma das bebidas mais consumidas no mundo.
    Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world.
  2. a café, an establishment selling coffee and other beverages, alcoholic or not, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises
    Gosto muito deste café.
    I like this café very much.
  3. (Brazil) Ellipsis of café da manhã (“breakfast”).
    Saí tão depressa de casa que até esqueci de tomar café.
    I left home so hurriedly that I even forgot to have breakfast.

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Descendants

References

  1. ^ “café” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  2. ^ “café” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

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café

Etymology

Borrowed from French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈfe/
  • Audio (Bolivia):(file)
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: ca‧fé

Adjective

café m or f (masculine and feminine plural café or cafés)

  1. brown

Noun

café m (plural cafés)

  1. coffee
  2. cafe, coffee shop

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Swedish

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French café.

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Noun

café n

  1. a café, a coffee shop

Usage notes

The definite singular form can also be cafét/caféts.

Declension

Declension of café 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative café caféet caféer caféerna
Genitive cafés caféets caféers caféernas

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