taverner

From Old French tavernier.

taverner (plural taverners)

1. (archaic) Someone who owns or runs a tavern.

   Synonyms: innkeeper, tavernkeeper

   • 1919, Arthur Train, Tutt and Mr. Tutt‎^[1]:

     In the Ninth Year Book of that Monarch's reign there is a case in which it was held that 'if I go to a tavern to eat, and the taverner gives and sells me meat and it corrupted, whereby I am made very sick, action lies against him without any express warranty, for there is a warranty in law'; and in the time of Henry the Seventh the learned Justice Keilway said, 'No man can justify selling corrupt victual, but an action on the case lies against the seller, whether the victual was warranted to be good or not.'

• Tavenner

Latin tabernārius. By surface analysis, taverna +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tə.βərˈne]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [tə.vərˈne]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ta.veɾˈneɾ]

taverner m (plural taverners, feminine tavernera)

1. innkeeper; owner of a tavern

• “taverner” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “taverner” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “taverner”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “taverner” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• tavarnere, taverneer, tavernere, tavernyer, tavurner, tavyrner, tawerner, tawyrner

From Old French tavernier; equivalent to tavern +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtavɛrnər/, /ˌtavɛrˈneːr/

taverner (plural taverneres)

1. taverner (one who runs a tavern).

• English: taverner (archaic)

• “taverner(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.