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demitasse (DEM-ee-tas) - n., a small cup of strong black coffee or espresso; the cup it's served in.
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My parents would have one after dinner, but I have enough difficulty going to sleep and any caffeine after, say, mid-afternoon just makes it worse. (Doesn't stop Mom from asking if I want any after every single dinner with her.) From French demi-tasse, from demi-, half + tasse, cup (from Old French, from Arabic ṭaš/ṭās, cup, from Middle Persian tašt, from the past participle of the Proto-Iranian verb *taš-, to make, from PIE *tetḱ-, to create (which via Latin gave us text and textile and via Greek gave us technical).
---L.
Thanks, WikiMedia!
My parents would have one after dinner, but I have enough difficulty going to sleep and any caffeine after, say, mid-afternoon just makes it worse. (Doesn't stop Mom from asking if I want any after every single dinner with her.) From French demi-tasse, from demi-, half + tasse, cup (from Old French, from Arabic ṭaš/ṭās, cup, from Middle Persian tašt, from the past participle of the Proto-Iranian verb *taš-, to make, from PIE *tetḱ-, to create (which via Latin gave us text and textile and via Greek gave us technical).
---L.
