caffe

See also: caffé and caffè

English

Noun

caffe

1. Alternative spelling of caffè (“Italian café”).
   • 1997 (originally 1991), Madelon Sprengnether, Calvin William Truesdale, The house on Via Gombito: writing by American women abroad, New Rivers Press, page 363:

     Please use the umbrella stand in caffes.

   • 1999, Gloria Nardini, Che Bella Figura!: The Power of Performance in an Italian Ladies’ Club in Chicago, State University of New York Press, page 67:

     While they, too, share the camaraderie of life in the caffe and the piazza, […]

   • After the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) in 2013, Robert Elsie, Bejtullah D. Destani, Rudina Jasini, The Cham Albanians of Greece: A Documentary History, I.B. Tauris & Co., page 284:

     Unfortunately, the common speech of Epirus is somewhat beyond me, but on board ship, in caffes, and wherever it is possible to overhear the talk of the people, […]

Interlingua

Etymology

From English coffee, French café, Italian caffè, Spanish café, Portuguese café, German Kaffee and Russian ко́фе (kófe), all ultimately from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaf.fe/, /ˈka.fe/

Noun

caffe (plural caffes)

1. coffee

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaf.fe/
• Rhymes: -affe
• Hyphenation: càf‧fe

Adjective

caffe f pl

1. feminine plural of caffo

Noun

caffe f pl

1. plural of caffa

Middle English

Noun

caffe

1. (Catholicon Anglicum; North Riding) alternative form of chaf

Swedish

Noun

caffe

1. archaic form of kaffe