A place where food and drinks are sold and served, similar to a tavern or eating house.
From Late Latin 'acateria,' derived from Greek 'akates' (food/provisions). The suffix '-ery' denotes a place or establishment. The word entered European languages through medieval Latin.
This word is a linguistic fossil—it's nearly extinct in modern English but shows up in medieval documents describing the first public food establishments. It's the ancestor of the modern 'caterer,' which lost its initial 'a' prefix over centuries of language evolution.
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