Kilo Lingo

coffee

/ˈkɒf.i/

Line drawing of coffee
Coloured illustration of coffee
#527 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

A hot brown drink made from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant.

Word origin

From Italian caffè, from Turkish kahve, from an Arabic word for the drink.

Origin
Italian
Root
caffè

Examples

.

"Coffee" is the hot brown drink.

.

"Coffee" has no plural, so we say "no coffee".

.

Here "coffee" is the drink the milk is added to.

Add to review queue

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

Go to my review queue

This word is part of lesson 11.