Noun: café
Gender: m
Hyphenation: ca‧fé
| Singular m | café |
| Plural m | cafés |
Sample Sentences
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Café, m. Caffé (Café = coffee) [1705, Francisco Sobrino, Dicionario nuevo de las lenguas española y francesa, volume 1, Bruxelles: F. Foppens, page 69b:]
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Monſ. Ducan, Dotor de Mompeller, refiere de otro famoſo Medico Francès, que recetaba el Caphè vniverſalmente à todos ſus enfermos. (Mr. Ducan, doctor of Montpellier, refers to another famous French doctor, who prescribed coffee to all of his patiens altogether.) [1726, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo, Theatro critico universal, volume 1, Madrid: L. F. Mojados, page 129f.:]
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Explica las mercaderias que los Olandeſes ſacan de varias partes […] Azucar, Cafè, y Thè, Ambar, […] (Explains the goods that the Dutch take from various places, […] sugar, coffee and tea, amber, […]) [1740, Bernardo de Ulloa, Restablecimiento de las fabricas i comercio español, volume 1, Madrid: A. Marin, page 161f.:]
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La Francia estableció en sus colonias de Santo Domingo y la Martinica el comercio de café para excusarse de traerlo del Oriente (France established coffee trade on its colonies of Saint-Domingue and Martinique to avoid having to take it from the East) [18th c., Jorge Juan, Antonio de Ulloa, Noticias secretas de América, London: R. Taylor, published 1826, page 602:]
Nouns inflected like café
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor.
3. Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve)bor.
4. Italian caffèbor.
5. French cafébor.
6. Spanish café
7. Borrowed from French café, or less likely directly from Italian caffè. See: French Nouns '
café', Italian Nouns '
caffè'.
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