barista
noun
- person, usually a coffeehouse employee, who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /bəˈɹiːs.tə/ / /bəˈɹɪs.tə/ / /bəˈɹis.tə/
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian barista (“bartender”, literally “barist”), from bar (from English bar) + -ista (“-ist”); compare barman.
- A person who prepares coffee in a coffee shop for customers.
“"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 [...].”
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian barista (“bartender”, literally “barist”), from bar (from English bar) + -ista (“-ist”); compare barman.
- To work as a barista.
“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.”
“Nevertheless, we’ll both be done with barista-ing soon.”