Noun: baristo
| Singular | baristo |
| Plural | baristi; baristos |
Sample Sentences
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Starbucks also faces slumping morale and employee burnout among its store managers and its once-cheery army of baristos. [2002, Business week, McGraw-Hill, Inc, page 102:]
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On the other side of me a table holds several tureens of brewed coffee; additionally, a small man in a white coat stands beside a cappuccino maker. He is the official baristo of this White House coffee. [2003, Philip Edward Baruth, The X President: a novel, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 65, →ISBN:]
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As a Starbucks baristo, I was pleased to read your even-handed treatment of the Ethiopian trademarking controversy. [2006, The Economist, volume 381, Economist Newspaper Ltd., page 16:]
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I walk over to Feet’s Coffee & Tea on Vine Street and tell the young #baristo, “My daughter started preschool today.” He gives me a coffee on the house. [2006, Rachel Sarah, Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 111, →ISBN:]
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The cute baristo. He’d somehow slipped in unnoticed again, and was now behind the counter in a sky blue T-shirt […] [2006, Rebecca Agiewich, BreakupBabe: a novel, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 50, →ISBN:]
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At the door, the baristo from Starbucks peeked in. His lime green hair seemed to stick straight up when he saw Jewel. “I brought you another latte. […]” [2008, Jennifer Stevenson, The Velvet Chair, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 71, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like baristo
prosciutto,
baristo,
ottavino,
gruppetto,
pentimento,
amaro,
affogato,
soldo,
verdello,
luigino,
groupetto,
albarello,
sgraffiato,
gelato,
bacaro,
paparazzo,
Etymology
From barista (“bartender”), the -a having been interpreted as the Italian feminine singular ending -a, and then substituted with the masculine singular ending -o to specify a masculine, rather than feminine, agent noun.