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

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. Alternative form of chaf

Swedish

Noun

caffe

  1. Archaic form of kaffe.
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