cantina

C3A1N1T1I1N1A1
UK/kænˈtiː.nə/US/kænˈti.nə/US[kʰɛənˈti.nə]US[kʰeənˈti.nə]

noun

A drinking establishment, often specifically of the type found in Latin America.

OriginSpanish cantina ← Italian cantina →
Less commonScrabble 9
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nouncantina (plural cantinas)

plural cantinas

  1. A drinking establishment, often specifically of the type found in Latin America.

    Meanwhile, around the corner, Larry Meyers and Gerard Novello[…] ducked into a Mexican cantina for a drink.

    2009 January 31, Alan Feuer, “It’s Theirs and They’re Not Apologizing”, in New York Times
  2. A cantina truck, cantina wagon or cantina trailer.

Origin

  1. Italiancantina
  2. Spanishcantina
  3. Englishcantina

From Spanish cantina, from Italian cantina. Doublet of canteen.

More words from Spanish, Italian

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with cantina

latinaArgentinaarenaKatrinamarinaninaPasadenareginaAngelinasubpoenaXenaDinaminaballerinagalenacarinapatinaSheenafarinaRinaspirulinaBallymenaverbenapiscina
All rhymes →

Anagrams

Tannaic
Cite this entry
APA

cantina. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cantina

MLA

“cantina.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cantina. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cantina,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cantina.

Source: cantina on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.