Taverne
See also: taverne
German
Alternative forms
- Tavern, Tafern, Taferne (southern sense only), Tabern, Taberne (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle High German taverne, from Italian taverna and/or Old French taverne.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taˈvɛʁnə/
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Noun
Taverne f (genitive Taverne, plural Tavernen)
- a Mediterranean wine bar and/or simple restaurant, especially an Italian or Greek one; a taverna
- Synonym: (especially Iberian) Bodega
- 1912, Thomas Mann, chapter 3, in Der Tod in Venedig [Death in Venice], München: Hyperionverlag, →OCLC:
- Er gab Weisung, sein Gepäck ins Bäder-Hotel zu bringen, und folgte dem Karren durch die Allee, die weißblühende Allee, welche, Tavernen, Bazare, Pensionen zu beiden Seiten, quer über die Insel zum Strande läuft.
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- (now Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland) inn, tavern, traditional restaurant or hotel
- Synonyms: Lokal, Gaststätte, Gastwirtschaft; Pension, Gasthaus
Declension
Further reading
- “Taverne” in Duden online
- “Taverne” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Taverne” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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