Etymology

café

Today it means: A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises. Full definition →

French café
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromcafé“coffee; coffee shop”
  2. English todaycafé

Unadapted borrowing from French café (“coffee; coffee shop”). Doublet of caffè and coffee.

Words from the same roots

Frenchcafé all →

cafestolNescafé

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.