cafétéria

See also: caféteria, cafeteria, Cafeteria, and cafetería

English

Etymology

From French cafétéria.

Noun

cafétéria (plural cafétérias)

1. Rare spelling of cafeteria.
   • 1913, Pi Beta Phi, The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, volume 29, page 723:

     Monday evening May 5, is the date for the May Campus luncheon given annually by the Y. W. C. A. This is served in cafétéria style and is much enjoyed by the entire student body and many town people.

   • 1979, Bruce Grant, The Boat People: An Age Investigation with Bruce Grant, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 172:

     Waiting in line for the cafétéria in the transit centres at Creteil, a southern suburb of Paris, is a 24-year-old chemistry student.

   • 1999, Jeanne Lamoure-Rontopoulou, Evaluating Higher Education, UNESCO, →ISBN, page 95:

     Residences, cafétérias

   • 2000, Steve Fallon, Michael Rothschild, France, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 202:

     With the exception of cafétérias and self-service restaurants, most eateries take credit cards.

   • 2013, Rosalie Marsh, Oranges: A Journey, Christal Publishing, →ISBN:

     Once inside and taking heed of the directions of their informative guide Rosemary, Charlotte turned her gaze from the wonderful display of leather handbags, gloves, and perfumes on the beauty counter and followed Daisy and the others onto the escalator going up to the cafétéria floor. / The selection of drinks in the cafétéria was extensive.

   • 2015, Colin S. Story, After the Grape Harvest: Après les Vendanges, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co, →ISBN:

     We now had the whole day on our hands, and we wandered aimlessly around the town until we found a cafétéria tucked away in a side alley near the town centre.

   • 2016, Sam Pease, The Jet Project: A 600-day Global Ed-venture with My Son, Random House, →ISBN, “Jet’s Diary”:

     French school cafétéria food is amazing with tasty, hot meals every day. To enter the cafétéria you have to put your hand into a fingerprint scanner. It checks whether you’ve paid for your lunches for the month. / Every year group enters the cafétéria at a different time and it rotates.

French

Alternative forms

• caféteria

Etymology

From Italian caffetteria. Doublet of cafetière.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.fe.te.ʁja/

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Noun

cafétéria f (plural cafétérias)

1. cafeteria

   Synonym: café

Descendants

• → English: cafétéria
• → Turkish: kafeterya

Further reading

• “cafétéria”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.