taberna

From Latin taberna. Doublet of tavern and taverna.

taberna (plural tabernas)

1. (Ancient Rome) A type of shop or stall in Ancient Rome.

From Spanish taberna, from Latin taberna. Doublet of tavern and taverna.

taberna (plural tabernas)

1. A tavern in Spain.

   Hypernyms: tavern, restaurant < establishment

   Coordinate terms: taverna, osteria, trattoria, bistro

   • 1994 April 3, Penelope Casas, “Madrid's Timeless Taverns”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     When King Philip II made Madrid his capital in 1561, the taberna was already well established. The city's streets teemed with people—from lowlife and riffraff to cloaked royalty and aristocrats seeking anonymity in the crowds—and in the finest democratic tradition, all took part in the life of the tabernas.

• Braaten, ant bear, ant-bear, antbear

Borrowed from Spanish taberna.

• IPA^(key): /taberna/ [t̪a.β̞er.na]
• Rhymes: -erna, -a
• Hyphenation: ta‧ber‧na

taberna inan

1. pub, tavern, inn

From Old Galician-Portuguese taverna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin taberna (“inn, tavern, shop”), by dissimilation from *traberna, from trabs.

• IPA^(key): /taˈbɛɾna/ [t̪aˈβ̞ɛɾ.nɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɾna
• Hyphenation: ta‧ber‧na

taberna f (plural tabernas)

1. tavern

   Polas noites está sempre na taberna tomando viño e xogando a partida cos amigos.

   He's always at the pub during the evening, drinking wine and playing cards with his friends.

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “taverna”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “tauern”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “taberna”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “taberna”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “taberna”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

By dissimilation from *traberna, from trabs (“tree trunk, beam”) +‎ -rnus, with original meaning "wooden shed".^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [taˈbɛr.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [taˈbɛr.na]

taberna f (genitive tabernae); first declension

1. shop, store
2. inn
3. tavern, saloon
4. hut, shed

A taberna can be a shop where goods are sold. An officīna is a shop where goods are manufactured. It is possible for a single shop to be both a taberna and an officīna.

First-declension noun.

• 44 BC, Cicero, Philippicae, liber 2, 21:

  ...nisi se ille in scalas tabernae librariae coniecisset...

  ...if he had not thrown himself up the stairs of a bookseller's shop...

• 533, Justinian I, Digesta seu Pandectae, liber 50, 16:183:

  Tabernae appellatio declarat omne utile ad habitandum aedificium... quod tabulis clauditur.

  The name "tabernae" indicates every building used for habitation... which is enclosed by boards.

• “taberna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “taberna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "taberna", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “taberna”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “taberna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “taberna”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• taverna

From Old Galician-Portuguese taverna, from Latin taberna (“inn, tavern, shop”), by dissimilation from *traberna, from trabs.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛʁnɐ, (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɛɾnɐ
• Homophone: (Northern Portugal) taverna
• Hyphenation: ta‧ber‧na

taberna f (plural tabernas)

1. pub, tavern

• “taberna”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “taberna”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “taberna”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “taberna”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin taberna (“inn, tavern, shop”), displacing the inherited Old Spanish tabierna.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /taˈbeɾna/ [t̪aˈβ̞eɾ.na]
• Rhymes: -eɾna
• Syllabification: ta‧ber‧na

taberna f (plural tabernas)

1. pub, tavern

• → Basque: taberna
• → English: taberna
• → Tagalog: taberna

• “taberna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish taberna, from Latin taberna.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈbeɾna/ [t̪ɐˈbɛɾ.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -eɾna
• Syllabification: ta‧ber‧na
• Homophone: Taberna

taberna (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊᜒᜇ᜔ᜈ)

1. pub; tavern

   Synonym: bar