taberna

English

Etymology 1

From Latin taberna. Doublet of tavern and taverna.

Noun

taberna (plural tabernas)

1. (Ancient Rome) A type of shop or stall in Ancient Rome.

Etymology 2

From Spanish taberna, from Latin taberna. Doublet of tavern and taverna.

Noun

taberna (plural tabernas)

1. A tavern in Spain.
   • 1994 April 3, Penelope Casas, “Madrid's Timeless Taverns”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     When King Philip II made Madrid his capital in 1561, the taberna was already well established. The city's streets teemed with people—from lowlife and riffraff to cloaked royalty and aristocrats seeking anonymity in the crowds—and in the finest democratic tradition, all took part in the life of the tabernas.

Anagrams

• Braaten, ant bear, ant-bear, antbear

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish taberna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taberna/ [t̪a.β̞er.na]
• Rhymes: -erna
• Hyphenation: ta‧ber‧na

Noun

taberna inan

1. pub, tavern, inn

Declension

Declension of taberna (inanimate, ending in -a)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	taberna	taberna	tabernak
ergative	tabernak	tabernak	tabernek
dative	tabernari	tabernari	tabernei
genitive	tabernaren	tabernaren	tabernen
comitative	tabernarekin	tabernarekin	tabernekin
causative	tabernarengatik	tabernarengatik	tabernengatik
benefactive	tabernarentzat	tabernarentzat	tabernentzat
instrumental	tabernaz	tabernaz	tabernez
inessive	tabernatan	tabernan	tabernetan
locative	tabernatako	tabernako	tabernetako
allative	tabernatara	tabernara	tabernetara
terminative	tabernataraino	tabernaraino	tabernetaraino
directive	tabernatarantz	tabernarantz	tabernetarantz
destinative	tabernatarako	tabernarako	tabernetarako
ablative	tabernatatik	tabernatik	tabernetatik
partitive	tabernarik	—	—
prolative	tabernatzat	—	—

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese taverna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin taberna (“inn, tavern, shop”), by dissimilation from *traberna, from trabs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈβɛɾna̝/

Noun

taberna f (plural tabernas)

1. tavern

   Polas noites está sempre na taberna tomando viño e xogando a partida cos amigos.

   He's always at the pub during the evening, drinking wine and playing cards with his friends.

Derived terms

• taberneiro

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “taverna”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tauern”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “taberna”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “taberna”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “taberna”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Latin

Etymology

By dissimilation from *traberna, from trabs (“tree trunk, beam”) +‎ -rnus, with original meaning "wooden shed".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /taˈber.na/, [t̪äˈbɛrnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /taˈber.na/, [t̪äˈbɛrnä]

Noun

taberna f (genitive tabernae); first declension

1. shop, store
2. inn
3. tavern, saloon
4. hut, shed

Usage notes

A taberna can be a shop where goods are sold. An officīna is a shop where goods are manufactured. It is possible for a single shop to be both a taberna and an officīna.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	taberna	tabernae
genitive	tabernae	tabernārum
dative	tabernae	tabernīs
accusative	tabernam	tabernās
ablative	tabernā	tabernīs
vocative	taberna	tabernae

Quotations

• 44 BC, Cicero, Philippicae, liber 2, 21:

  ...nisi se ille in scalas tabernae librariae coniecisset...

  ...if he had not thrown himself up the stairs of a bookseller's shop...

• 533, Justinian I, Digesta seu Pandectae, liber 50, 16:183:

  Tabernae appellatio declarat omne utile ad habitandum aedificium... quod tabulis clauditur.

  The name "tabernae" indicates every building used for habitation... which is enclosed by boards.

Derived terms

• contubernālis
• contubernium
• tabernāculārius
• tabernāculum
• tabernārius
• tabernula

Descendants

• Old French: taverne
  • Middle French: taverne
    • French: taverne
      • → Romanian: tavernă
  • → Irish: tábhairne
  • → Middle Dutch: taverne
    • Dutch: taverne
  • → Middle English: taverne
    • English: tavern
    • Scots: tavern
• Italian: taverna
• Old Galician-Portuguese: taverna
  • Galician: taberna
  • Portuguese: taberna, taverna
• Spanish: taberna
  • → English: taberna
• → Proto-Brythonic: *taβern (see there for further descendants)
• → English: taberna
• → Esperanto: taverno
• → Greek: ταβέρνα (tavérna)
  • → English: taverna
• → Ido: taverno

Further reading

• “taberna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “taberna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• taberna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• taberna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “taberna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “taberna”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• taverna

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese taverna, from Latin taberna (“inn, tavern, shop”), by dissimilation from *traberna, from trabs.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈbɛʁ.nɐ/ [taˈbɛɦ.nɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈbɛʁ.nɐ/ [taˈbɛɦ.nɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /taˈbɛɾ.nɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /taˈbɛʁ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈbɛɻ.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈbɛɾ.nɐ/ [tɐˈβɛɾ.nɐ]

Noun

taberna f (plural tabernas)

1. pub, tavern

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin taberna (“inn, tavern, shop”), displacing the inherited Old Spanish tabierna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈbeɾna/ [t̪aˈβ̞eɾ.na]
• Rhymes: -eɾna
• Syllabification: ta‧ber‧na

Noun

taberna f (plural tabernas)

1. pub, tavern

Derived terms

• herriko taberna

 

Descendants

• → English: taberna

Further reading

• “taberna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish taberna.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈbeɾna/ [t̪ɐˈbɛɾ.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -eɾna
• Syllabification: ta‧ber‧na

Noun

taberna (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊᜒᜇ᜔ᜈ)

1. pub; tavern

   Synonym: bar