espresso

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɛˈspɹɛsəʊ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪˈspɹɛsəʊ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˈspɹɛsəʊ/
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• General-American: /ɛˈspɹɛsoʊ/
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• CMU ARPABET: EH2 S P R EH1 S OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: EH2 K S P R EH1 S OW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Italian espresso, from caffè espresso (“pressed-out coffee”), form of esprimere (“to press out”), from Latin exprimere, from ex- (“out”) + primere (“to press”). Some sources derive the term from “expressly (‘individually, directly’) made for the customer”, or as “fast” (Italian espresso also meaning “fast”, as in English express (“fast”)) but these are not widely credited. The original term for modern espresso (coffee extracted under pressure) was cream coffee, from Italian caffè crema (variant: crema caffè), due to the crema, and was seen on early Gaggia machines, but this term is no longer used.

83 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Albanian: ekspres — strong type of coffee
• Arabic: إِسْبْرِسُّو (ʔisbrissū) — strong type of coffee
• Armenian: էսպրեսո (ēspreso) — strong type of coffee
• Azerbaijani: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Belarusian: эспрэ́са (esprésa) — strong type of coffee
• Bengali: এসপ্রেসো (eśopreśō) — strong type of coffee
• Bulgarian: еспре́со (espréso) — strong type of coffee
• Burmese: အက်စ်ပရက်ဆို (akcpa.rakhcui) — strong type of coffee
• Catalan: exprés — strong type of coffee
• Chinese Mandarin: 濃縮咖啡 /浓缩咖啡 (nóngsuō kāfēi) — strong type of coffee
• Chinese Mandarin: 濃咖啡 /浓咖啡 (nóngkāfēi) — strong type of coffee
• Chinese Mandarin: 意式濃縮 /意式浓缩 (Yìshì nóngsuō) — strong type of coffee
• Czech: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Danish: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Dutch: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Esperanto: espreso — strong type of coffee
• Estonian: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Faroese: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Finnish: espresso — strong type of coffee
• French: café express — strong type of coffee
• French: express — strong type of coffee
• French: café expresso — strong type of coffee
• French: expresso — strong type of coffee
• French: café espresso — strong type of coffee
• French: espresso — strong type of coffee
• French: café court — strong type of coffee
• Galician: café expreso — strong type of coffee
• Georgian: ესპრესო (esṗreso) — strong type of coffee
• German: Espresso — strong type of coffee
• Greek: εσπρέσο (espréso) — strong type of coffee
• Hebrew: אֶסְפְּרֵסוֹ (espréso) — strong type of coffee
• Hindi: एस्प्रेसो (espreso) — strong type of coffee
• Hungarian: presszókávé — strong type of coffee
• Hungarian: eszpresszókávé — strong type of coffee
• Hungarian: eszpresszó — strong type of coffee
• Icelandic: espressó — strong type of coffee
• Indonesian: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Italian: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Italian: caffè espresso — strong type of coffee
• Italian: caffè liscio — strong type of coffee
• Japanese: エスプレッソ (esupuresso) — strong type of coffee
• Kazakh: эспрессо (éspresso) — strong type of coffee
• Khmer: អេសប្រេសសូ (ʼeespreessou) — strong type of coffee
• Korean: 에스프레소 (eseupeureso) — strong type of coffee
• Kyrgyz: эспрессо (espresso) — strong type of coffee
• Lao: ເອສເປຣສໂຊ (ʼēs prēs sō) — strong type of coffee
• Lao: ເອສເປລສໂຊ (ʼēs plēs sō) — strong type of coffee
• Latvian: espreso — strong type of coffee
• Lithuanian: espresas — strong type of coffee
• Macedonian: еспре́со (espréso) — strong type of coffee
• Malay: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Māori: kawhe tere — strong type of coffee
• Māori: kawhe kutē — strong type of coffee
• Mongolian: эспрессо (espresso) — strong type of coffee
• Norwegian Bokmål: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Norwegian Nynorsk: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Iranian Persian: اِسْپِرِسو (espereso) — strong type of coffee
• Polish: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Portuguese: café expresso — strong type of coffee
• Portuguese: expresso — strong type of coffee
• Portuguese: bica — strong type of coffee
• Portuguese: cimbalino — strong type of coffee
• Romanian: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Russian: эспре́ссо (esprɛ́sso) — strong type of coffee
• Serbo-Croatian: еспре̏со — strong type of coffee
• Serbo-Croatian: esprȅso — strong type of coffee
• Serbo-Croatian: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Slovak: espreso — strong type of coffee
• Slovene: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Spanish: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Spanish: expreso — strong type of coffee
• Spanish: café exprés — strong type of coffee
• Swedish: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Tajik: эспрессо (espresso) — strong type of coffee
• Thai: เอสเปรสโซ (ès-bprès-sôo) — strong type of coffee
• Turkish: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Ukrainian: еспре́со (espréso) — strong type of coffee
• Urdu: اِسْپْرِسو (ispriso) — strong type of coffee
• Uzbek: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Vietnamese: espresso — strong type of coffee
• Yiddish: עספּרעסאָ־⁠קאַווע — strong type of coffee
• Yiddish: עספּרעסאָ (espreso) — strong type of coffee