java English · revision 10566

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=clipping|attested=1850|origins=en Java coffee}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈdʒɑː.və/, US also /ˈdʒæv.ə/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is short for Java coffee (1787),^(Etymonline) coffee grown on the island of Java, in present-day Indonesia.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(COED 2004) The island's name is shortened from Sanskrit Yavadvīpa, “island of barley”;^(Etymonline)^(Yule & Burnell 1903) Ptolemy recorded it as Iabadiou.^(Yule & Burnell 1903)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Coffee from Java, and in slang any coffee: 1850.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)^(GDoS)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ By the early 20th century java meant coffee in general,^(Etymonline) and Barnhart dates the slang sense from 1926, in American English.^(Barnhart 1988) Green's Dictionary of Slang labels it US and Canadian.^(GDoS) ''Java'' is also the trademark name of a programming language designed to work across different computer systems.^(COED 2004)^(LDOCE 2009)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1787 – Java coffee.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1850 – java, coffee.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

+ * 1926 – java, any coffee (slang).^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(informal, chiefly North American)'' [[coffee|alt=Coffee]].^(AHD)^(COED 2004)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mocha]]

+ * [[coffee]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The Cambridge pronouncing dictionary notes that in the coffee sense the American pronunciation is more likely to be /ˈdʒæv.ə/.^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}