barista

• barrista

Borrowed from Italian barista (“bartender”, literally “barist”), from bar (from English bar) + -ista (“-ist”); compare barman.

• (Italianate) enPR: (approximately): bărisʹtă, IPA^(key): /baˈɹi.sta/, /baˈɾi.sta/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bărĭsʹtə, IPA^(key): /bəˈɹiː.stə/, /bəˈɹɪ.stə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɚˈi.stə/, /bɚˈɪ.stə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /bəˈɹɪ.stə/
• Rhymes: -ɪstə

barista (plural baristas or baristi)

1. A person who prepares coffee in a coffee shop for customers.
   • 2021 March 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 926, page 70:

     "From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].

• Barista, in Italian, may be used in reference to both men and women. For English speakers cursorily familiar with Italian grammar, it may appear feminine on first encounter, as evidenced by the existence of the hypercorrect derivation baristo, intended as its masculine counterpart.

• baristo (hypercorrect masculine form)

• “barista”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• Arabist

From English barista, borrowed from Italian barista (“bartender”, literally “barist”), from bar.

• Hyphenation: ba‧ris‧ta

barista

1. a barista

From Italian barista.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑristɑ/, [ˈbɑris̠t̪ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑristɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ba‧ris‧ta

barista

1. barista

From bar +‎ -ista (“-ist”).

• IPA^(key): /baˈri.sta/
• Rhymes: -ista
• Hyphenation: ba‧rì‧sta

barista m or f by sense (masculine plural baristi, feminine plural bariste)

1. barman (male), barmaid (female), bartender (North American), barista

• bar

• → English: barista

• barista in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• barasti, basarti, bastirà, brasati, brisata, sbraita

Unadapted borrowing from Italian barista, equivalent to bar +‎ -ista. First attested in 2003.

• IPA^(key): /baˈris.ta/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ista
• Syllabification: ba‧ris‧ta

barista m pers (feminine baristka)

1. barista

• barista in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• barista in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English barista, in turn from Italian barista (“bartender”, literally “barist”).

barista m or f by sense (plural baristas)

1. barista (person who serves in a coffee shop)

barista m or f (plural baristas)

1. barista