refectory

English

Etymology

Via Middle English refectori from Late Latin refectorium, from Latin reficere (“to remake, to rebuild”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɛkt(ə)ɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

refectory (plural refectories)

1. A dining hall, especially in an institution such as a college or monastery.
   • 1964 April, “Letters: London stations—a consumers' guide”, in Modern Railways, page 274:

     They compare very well with similar cafes elsewhere and the quality, for example, is far better and the price cheaper than in my college refectory.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     With a clattering of chairs, upended shell cases, benches, and ottomans, Pirate's mob gather at the shores of the great refectory table, a southern island well across a tropic or two from chill Croydon.

Derived terms

• refectory table

Related terms

• refection

Translations

dining-hall

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: трапезария f (trapezarija)
• Catalan: refectori m, refetor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 食堂 (zh) (shítáng), 餐廳／餐厅 (zh) (cāntīng)

• Danish: refektorium (da) n
• Dutch: refter (nl) m, eetzaal (nl) m, refectorium (nl) n
• Finnish: ruokala (fi), ruokasali (fi); (monastery) refektorio (fi)
• French: réfectoire (fr) m
• Galician: refectorio (gl) m
• German: Refektorium (de) n, Speisesaal (de) m, Mensa (de) f, Remter (de) m
• Greek: τραπεζαρία (el) f (trapezaría), τράπεζα (el) f (trápeza)
• Irish: proinnteach m
• Italian: refettorio (it) m, mensa (it) f
• Japanese: 食堂 (ja) (しょくどう, shokudō)
• Korean: 구내식당 (gunaesikdang), 식당 (ko) (sikdang)
• Latin: cenatio f, refectōrium n
• Macedonian: трпеза́рија f (trpezárija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: refektorium n

  Nynorsk: refektorium n

• Plautdietsch: Ätstow f
• Polish: refektarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: refeitório (pt) m
• Russian: тра́пезная (ru) f (trápeznaja) (monastery), столо́вая (ru) f (stolóvaja) (college)
• Spanish: refectorio (es) m
• Swedish: refektorium (sv) n
• Turkish: yemekhane (tr)
• Welsh: ffreutur m