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cafetín

Spanish, noun/kafeˈtin/

cafetín is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “coffee shop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a diminutive of café; coffee. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Establecimiento en donde se vende café y otras bebidas afines”.

What does cafetín mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecoffee shop

  2. 2

    masculinediminutive of café; coffee

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Establecimiento en donde se vende café y otras bebidas afines.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of cafetín

  • cafetines plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce cafetín?

  • /kafeˈtin/
  • [ka.feˈt̪ĩn]
  • [kafeˈt̪ĩn]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to cafetín

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is cafetín in Spanish?

cafetín appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).