Etymology

portafilter

P3O1R1T1A1F4I1L1T1E1R1

Today it means: A holder for ground espresso coffee that is attached to a group in an espresso machine to produce espresso. Full definition →

Italian portafiltro
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Italian · borrowed fromportafiltro
  2. English todayportafilter

Blend of portable + filter, or possibly incompletely calqued from Italian portafiltro "filter-carrier".

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.