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词汇 -teria
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-teria
/ˈtɪərɪə/  
suffix
denoting self-service establishments
表示“自助商店(或餐馆等)”:

washeteria.

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on the pattern of (cafeteria.
-teria, suffix orig. and chiefly U.S.|ˈtɪərɪə|Also -eteria.[Derived from cafeteria by analysis of its components as café + -teria.]A suffix used commercially to form the names of self-service retail or catering establishments.1923Mod. Lang. Notes XXXVIII. 188 Every one knows by this time that a cafeteria is a ‘help-yourself’ restaurant. Apparently in the popular mind the ending -teria or -eteria has come to indicate just such a process.1929Amer. Speech IV. 334 To the vast and growing progeny of ‘cafeteria’ may be added the name given to ‘Maxwell's Vegetarian Healthateria’, 35 West Van Buren Street, Chicago.1941[see burger].1959Times 27 Oct. 13/5 To the collection of -teria and -toria add ‘Valeteria’ and ‘Washeteria’—in Cambridge, Massachusetts.1965Listener 2 Sept. 339/1 An Italian café-owner..has..switched his sign from Pizzeria to Pie-teria.
-te·ria
\ˈtirēə\ noun combining form
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Etymology: cafeteria
: place having self-service
 < groceteria >
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