enoteca

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian enoteca.

Noun

enoteca (plural enotecas)

1. A wine bar giving visitors or tourists the opportunity to sample locally-produced wine with a view to buying it.
   • 2008 May 7, The New York Times, “Turqua Grill and The JakeWalk”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The JakeWalk is a counterpoint to Manhattan’s conspicuously chic enotecas, less a wine bar than a friendly neighborhood bar with over 200 wines.

Anagrams

• acetone

Italian

Etymology

From eno- +‎ -teca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.noˈtɛ.ka/

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• Rhymes: -ɛka
• Hyphenation: e‧no‧tè‧ca

Noun

enoteca f (plural enoteche)

1. wine shop
2. wine cellar (collection of wine)
3. wine bar

See also

• vino

Anagrams

• acetone

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enoˈteka/ [e.noˈt̪e.ka]
• Rhymes: -eka
• Syllabification: e‧no‧te‧ca

Noun

enoteca f (plural enotecas)

1. enoteca
2. wine bar
3. wine shop

Further reading

• “enoteca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28