refectory

refectory

English

Etymology

Via Middle English refectori from Late Latin refectorium, from Latin reficere (“to remake, to rebuild”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɛkt(ə)ɹi/

Noun

refectory (plural refectories)

1. A dining hall, especially in an institution such as a college or monastery.
   • 1964 April, “Letters: London stations—a consumers' guide”, in Modern Railways, page 274:

     They compare very well with similar cafes elsewhere and the quality, for example, is far better and the price cheaper than in my college refectory.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     With a clattering of chairs, upended shell cases, benches, and ottomans, Pirate's mob gather at the shores of the great refectory table, a southern island well across a tropic or two from chill Croydon.

Translations

dining-hall

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: трапезария f (trapezarija) Catalan: refectori m Chinese: Mandarin: 食堂 (zh) (shítáng), 餐廳 (zh), 餐厅 (zh) (cāntīng) Danish: refektorium (da) n Dutch: refter (nl) m, eetzaal (nl) m, refectorium (nl) n Finnish: ruokala (fi), ruokasali (fi); (monastery) refektorio (fi) French: réfectoire (fr) m Galician: refectorio (gl) m German: Refektorium (de) n, Speisesaal (de) m, Mensa (de) f, Remter (de) m Greek: τραπεζαρία (el) f (trapezaría), τράπεζα (el) f (trápeza) Irish: proinnteach m Italian: refettorio (it) m, mensa (it) f Japanese: 食堂 (ja) (しょくどう, shokudō) Korean: 구내식당 (gunaesikdang), 식당 (ko) (sikdang) Latin: cenatio f, refectōrium n Norwegian: Bokmål: refektorium n Nynorsk: refektorium n Plautdietsch: Ätstow f Polish: refektarz (pl) m Portuguese: refeitório (pt) m Russian: тра́пезная (ru) f (trápeznaja) (monastery), столо́вая (ru) f (stolóvaja) (college) Spanish: refectorio (es) m Swedish: refektorium (sv) n Turkish: yemekhane (tr)