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bodega

See also: Bodega and bodegă

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish bodega, from Latin apotheca (“storehouse”), from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “storehouse”). Doublet of apothecary, apotheke, and boutique. In New York popularized by the Puerto Rican community.

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bodega (plural bodegas)

  1. A storehouse for maturing wine, a winery.
  2. (US) A store specializing in Hispanic groceries.
  3. (informal, especially New York) Any convenience store.
    • 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 83:
      He […] finds himself looking across the street, at a little bodega on the corner.
    • 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
      The ensemble of (often shirtless) young people spend most of the film drinking malt liquor, taking drugs, robbing bodegas, assaulting skateboarders, and (especially) having and discussing sex.
    • 2025 November 17, Anna Kodé, “New York’s Bodegas Are Here to Stay”, in The New York Times‎[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 November 2025:
      The familiar yellow awning of your favorite bodega beckons. You step under it, then into the glare of fluorescent lights. All you have to do is nod at the man behind the counter: He knows you want to order a chopped cheese. […] Bodegas, those small corner stores dotting blocks throughout the five boroughs, have been an essential part of city life for decades. The term, popularized by Puerto Ricans, loosely translates from Spanish to “warehouse.” […] In an age of increasingly high rents, growing chain stores, endless food delivery apps and a health-obsessed population, it’s somewhat of an urban miracle that bodegas are still around.
  4. (informal, Southwestern US) Any small or medium-sized shop with a unique facade in a shopping center plaza, usually located in the center or the sides of the plaza. (Does not include the anchor tenant of the shopping center, as they are usually referred to as the anchor.)
  5. (Philippines) A warehouse; a storeroom.
    • 1925, Everett D. Gothwaite, Trade in Philippine Copra and Coconut Oil, page 51:
      Copra as brought into town from the plantations in bull carts is hauled to the door of his bodega, and the sale is negotiated.
    • 1958, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Philippines, page 413:
      They allowed Filipinos to go inside the bodega of the Central and get all the sugar they needed.
    • 1960, Philippines. Congress (1940-1973). Senate, Republic of the Philippines Congressional Record:
      Under the law, that is sufficient, and they make it clear that the value or the purchase prices is ₱100,000, and the bank is compelled under this proviso to accept the ricemill or bodega as sufficient collateral.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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First attested in 1653. Borrowed from Spanish bodega.[1] Doublet of botiga.

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Noun

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bodega f (plural bodegues)

  1. (nautical) hold (the cargo area of a ship)

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  1. ^ “bodega”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish bodega. Doublet of botika and botik.

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  • Hyphenation: bo‧de‧ga
  • IPA(key): /boˈdeɡa/ [boˈd̪i.ɡɐ]

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bodega

  1. a storeroom
  2. a warehouse

Danish

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Etymology

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From Spanish bodega, from Latin apothēca, from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē). Doublet of butik and apotek.

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bodega c (singular definite bodegaen, plural indefinite bodegaer)

  1. a bar (venue where alcohol is served), especially a dingy one
    Coordinate terms: beværtning, værtshus, kippe, pub, bar
  2. a (Spanish-like) wine bar
    Coordinate term: vinbar

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Declension of bodega
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bodega bodegaen bodegaer bodegaerne
genitive bodegas bodegaens bodegaers bodegaernes

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish bodega, from Latin apothēca (“storehouse”), from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “storehouse”). Doublet of boetiek and apotheek.

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  • IPA(key): /boːˈdeːɣaː/, /boːˈdeːɡaː/
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  • Hyphenation: bo‧de‧ga

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bodega f (plural bodega's, diminutive bodegaatje n)

  1. bodega, winery, wine bar
  2. bodega, storeroom, cellar

Hiligaynon

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Etymology

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From Spanish bodega, from Latin apothēca, from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē).

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bodéga

  1. cellar, storeroom, warehouse

Old Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin apothēca.

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bodega f (plural bodegas)

  1. wine cellar
    • c. 1250, Gonzalo de Berceo, Los Milagros de Nuestra Señora, (published by Claudio García Turza, 1992, Madrid: Espasa-Calpe):
      Entró enna bodega un día por ventura,
      bebió mucho del vino, esto fo sin mesura;
      embebdóse el loco, issió de su cordura,
      yogo hasta las viésperas sobre la tierra dura.
      He entered in the cellar one day by chance, and he drank a lot of the wine, this was without measure. The madman became drunk, and lost his sanity. He lay until vespers on the hard ground.

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  • Spanish: bodega

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin apothēca, from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “storehouse”). Doublet of adega, apoteca, botica, and butique.

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  • Rhymes: -ɛɡɐ
  • Hyphenation: bo‧de‧ga

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bodega f (plural bodegas)

  1. a small, cheap and possibly insalubrious tavern
    Synonym: baiuca
  2. (Brazil) a small warehouse
    Synonyms: taberna, mercearia
  3. anything considered worthless, useless or rather bad

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Spanish

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Etymology

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From Old Spanish bodega, inherited from Latin apothēca, from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “storehouse”). Compare the borrowed doublet apoteca, as well as botica and boutique, through a French intermediate.

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bodega f (plural bodegas)

  1. wine cellar; wine storeroom; wine stockroom
  2. wine warehouse
  3. wineshop; wine store
  4. winery
  5. (agriculture) a vintage or great abundance of wine somewhere
  6. pantry; larder (place where groceries are kept)
  7. (agriculture) garner; silo; granary (space to store cereals)
  8. (nautical) port warehouse; port storage
  9. (nautical) cargo hold (cargo space in a ship)
  10. (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile) warehouse (building where goods are stored)
  11. (El Salvador, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia) storeroom; stockroom; junkroom; lumber room (room or enclosed place where goods are stored)
  12. (Mexico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela) grocery store; supermarket
  13. (Peru, Venezuela) variety store; convenience store; corner store; minimarket; minimart
  14. (US) corner store owned by Hispanics
  15. (Cuba) an establishment similar to a grocery store or general store where rationed food is sold (typically owned by the government)
  16. (Dominican Republic) general store (in sugar mills)
  17. (Rioplatense, figurative, slang) stomach; belly (of a person)
  18. (Argentina) baggage hold; luggage compartment; cargo bin; luggage hold (underneath a short-haul bus)
  19. (Colombia, politics) troll farm[1][2]

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  1. ^ Ortiz Franco, Juan David (23 April 2018), “La bodega de ‘Fico’”, in Antioquia‎[1] (in Spanish), La Silla Vacía, retrieved 31-01-2026
  2. ^ “Elecciones 2019: ¿Sabes qué es un bot, un trol o una bodega?”, in Colombia‎[2] (in Spanish), Noticias RCN, 15 September 2019, retrieved 31-01-2026

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish bodega, from Latin apothēca, from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “storehouse”). Compare Tausug buriga. Doublet of botika.

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bodega (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜒᜄ)

  1. storeroom; stockroom
  2. warehouse
    Synonyms: kamalig, pintungan
  3. (boxing) stomach
    Synonym: tiyan

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