-teria
suffix
- denoting self-service establishments表示“自助商店（或餐馆等）”：
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washeteria.
词源
on the pattern of （cafe）teria.
1923 Mod. Lang. Notes XXXVIII. 188Every 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.
1929 Amer. Speech IV. 334To 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]
1959 Times 27 Oct. 13/5 To the collection of -teria and -toria add ‘Valeteria’ and ‘Washeteria’—in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1965 Listener 2 Sept. 339/1 An Italian café-owner..has..switched his sign from Pizzeria to Pie-teria.
-te·ria
\ˈtirēə\ noun combining form
(-s)
Etymology: cafeteria
: place having self-service
< groceteria >
< groceteria >