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/

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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.

barista (third-person singular simple present baristas, present participle barista-ing or (rare) baristaing, simple past and past participle baristaed)

1. To work as a barista.
   • 2007, Kate Hardy [pseudonym; Pamela Brooks], In Bed with Her Italian Boss, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 24:

     I helped out in the business while I was at school—we all did, whether it was washing up or baristaing or clearing the tables for Dad and washing them down when the shop closed—but this one night I was meant to be working a late shift when I had a chance to play in a concert. […] Are you still OK for another half-hour lesson on baristaing, tonight? […] ‘It’s advanced baristaing—an extra,’ he admitted.

   • 2009, Laura Schaefer, The Teashop Girls, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 220:

     Nevertheless, we’ll both be done with barista-ing soon.

   • 2009, Jody Gehrman, Triple Shot Bettys in Love, Dial Books, →ISBN:

     We hadn’t exchanged a word since our stupid tiff at TSB—we’d just baristaed side by side in silence, which isn’t easy when your workspace is the size of a broom closet.

   • 2011, Andrew Wear, “The Flavor of Choice: Neoliberalism and the Espresso Aesthetic”, in Scott F. Parker, Michael W. Austin, editors, Coffee – Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 163:

     If pure chance guided me to glory in the heady world of competitive barista-ing, the rewards came to be measured in frustration.

   • 2013, K.W. Taylor, “Doomed”, in Sarah Hans, editor, Sidekicks!, Alliteration Ink, →ISBN, page 170:

     But it was crappy of me to steal instead of bartending or barista-ing or temping or something.

   • 2015, Jo Knowles, Read Between the Lines, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 57:

     Barista Boy grins and goes back to barista-ing.

   • 2015, Kate Rorick, Rachel Kiley, The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet, Touchstone, →ISBN, page 95:

     I nodded to Mary, where she was working the frothing machine like she’d been barista-ing for much longer than a month.

   • 2015, Richard Polt, The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist’s Companion for the 21st Century, The Countryman Press, →ISBN:

     When she’s not barista-ing, she’s writing scripts for murder mystery dinner events.

   • 2016, Cara McKenna, chapter 19, in Downtown Devil, InterMix, published 2017, →ISBN:

     “How was barista-ing?” “Same as always. A few more burns, a few more tips.”

   • 2017, Ken Davenport, How to Succeed in the Arts…Or in Anything, Davenport Theatrical Enterprises, Inc., →ISBN, page 44:

     Somewhere right now, behind the counter at a McDonald’s or delivering pizza for Domino’s or barista-ing at Starbucks, there may be a guy with a gaggle of fantastic ideas for screenplays, Broadway shows, computer software, or, yeah, even healthcare!

   • 2018, Kirsten Weiss, chapter 15, in Witch: A Doyle Witch Cozy Mystery, →ISBN:

     Because I can’t fight crime every day, I spent Tuesday and Wednesday doing what I get paid for: barista-ing.

   • 2019, Arthur Smyth, Duet Quartet, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 34:

     Actually I hear nothing but orders, shouts of / disembodied names / disembodied people / Barista-ing, hard on the legs

   • 2020, Jan Gallagher, Double Latte Death, Xlibris, →ISBN:

     It’s easy—I turn out to be a sort of savant at barista-ing. […] Between customers I instruct her in the fine art of barista-ing.

   • 2020, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Starling Days, The Overlook Press, →ISBN:

     Along the halls, stories were muttered of graduates turned down from barista-ing, pool attending, dishwashing.

   • 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Little, Brown and Company, published 2023, →ISBN:

     But after X times of harassing him, he’d caved and admitted he only got 11 pages in before bowing out. This right after I’d finished trying to walk across country. Failing to. Back home barista-ing. Renting a room out of my high school home.

   • 2023, Kira Davis, “Critical Race Theory (Here Goes Nothin’)”, in Drawing Lines: Why Conservatives Must Begin to Battle Fiercely in the Arena of Ideas, Fidelis Publishing, →ISBN:

     My first child was three by that time and I’d given up acting (okay, fine … barista-ing) to become a housewife and mother.

   • 2023, Ian McDonald, chapter 11, in Hopeland, Tor Books, →ISBN:

     Raisa is long gone baristaing to the early workers of Spitalfields by the time Amon Brightbourne wakes from white sleep.

• “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/, [ˈbɑ̝ris̠tɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑristɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ba‧ris‧ta

barista

1. barista

• “barista”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

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/

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

barista m pers (female equivalent baristka)

1. barista

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

• Rhymes: -istɐ

barista m or f by sense (plural baristas)

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

barista m or f by sense (plural baristas)

1. barista