cafeteria
Portuguese, noun/ka.fe.teˈɾi.ɐ/
cafeteria is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “cafeteria (type of restaurant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estabelecimento em que se serve café ou outras bebidas, além de refeições leves”.
What does cafeteria mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecafeteria (type of restaurant)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estabelecimento em que se serve café ou outras bebidas, além de refeições leves
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cafeteria
- cafeterias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cafeteria?
- Brazil /ka.fe.teˈɾi.ɐ/
- Portugal /kɐ.fɨ.tɨˈɾi.ɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cafeteria
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cafeteria in Portuguese?
cafeteria appears 2.2 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).