cafecito
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cafecito.
Noun
cafecito (plural cafecitos)
- (chiefly Latino) A small hot coffee drink, particularly Cuban espresso.
- 2018 July 5, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”, in Twitter for iPhone (tweet), retrieved 6 July 2021:
- There’s nothing like walking into the bodega, grabbing an iced cafecito,[sic] chopping it up with everyone behind the counter + appreciating the dude who’s blasting “Oye Como Va” through his backpack speaker. In this small moment, nothing else matters. Today is a good day.
- 2017, Javier Armendariz Cortez, Poetry by the Border, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 63:
- El cafecito calientito... warm with a little smoke coming out of the cup... It is something like the comadre... with the other godmother enjoyed in Juarez...
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Spanish
Etymology
café + -cito
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /kafeˈθito/ [ka.feˈθi.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /kafeˈsito/ [ka.feˈsi.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ito
- Syllabification: ca‧fe‧ci‧to
Noun
cafecito m (plural cafecitos)
- Diminutive of café; small coffee.
- 2004, Julia Alvarez, El cuento del cafecito, Random House Mondadori
- La mujer detrás del mostrador levanta la mirada del libro que lee. Tiene apenas unos cuarenta años, calcula Joe, con el pelo oscuro y los ojos del color del grano de café. Howdy, dice él... [p]lease, un cafecito.
- 2004, Julia Alvarez, El cuento del cafecito, Random House Mondadori