Spanish Conversation · Level 155
28 words
Spanish word
cafetero
Pronunciation
IPA/kafeˈteɾo/
Meaning
- masculine nouncoffee farmer
Example
En esa región muchos son cafeteros y exportan café.
In that region many people are coffee farmers and export coffee.
More examples
La cooperativa de cafeteros vendió su cosecha.
The cooperative of coffee farmers sold its harvest.
Core concept
Worker harvesting coffee cherries on a coffee farm.
Common phrases
cooperativa de cafeteros
cooperative of coffee farmers
comunidad de cafeteros
coffee farmers' community
un cafetero local
local coffee farmer
Similar words
caficultor: Person who specializes in cultivating and managing coffee plants on a farm.
productor: Person who produces crops or goods and brings them to market for sale.
agricultor: Person who farms land and raises crops to make a living.
barista: Worker in a café who brews, prepares, and serves coffee drinks to customers.
Definition in Spanish
Trabajador o propietario de fincas que cultiva café y participa en su cosecha y comercialización.
Word origin
From Spanish café plus the agent suffix -ero, with café ultimately from Turkish kahve and Arabic qahwa, meaning a person who cultivates or works with coffee.
Usage tips
- Cafetero can mean a coffee grower or, in casual speech, a coffee enthusiast, so speakers often say productor de café or agricultor de café to make the farmer sense clear.
Opposites
- consumidorconsumernoun
Related words
- cafeteríacafénoun
- cafetalcoffee farmnoun
- cafetalerocoffee growernoun